Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
15 September 2025
From dialogue to action: lusophone unions ask their governments to Go Public! and fund education
In response to shrinking foreign aid, rapid digitalisation, and growing threats to democracy, Education International-affiliated Lusophone teachers’ unions convened on July 16 in Guinea-Bissau to reinforce social and policy dialogue. The meeting aimed to advance EI’s Go Public! Fund Education campaign
, strengthening collective efforts to defend and promote quality...
Starting strong: Education unions mobilise for the right to early childhood education
Despite its essential role, early childhood education (ECE) is undermined by chronic underfunding. Recognition of the importance of early childhood education, as well as the salaries, job satisfaction, working conditions, and status of ECE workers remain low. Meanwhile, private actors are working to take over the sector, filling the funding...
Belgium : unions oppose plan that worsens working conditions for teachers
A teaching profession suffering from burn out and from significant staff shortages. An undervalued non-profit sector. Demotivated, undervalued, and disrespected, teachers are advising their own children not to join the profession they have been passionately committed to for decades. These are the main issues for which teachers in Belgium have...