The teacher shortage is not gender-neutral: Researchers call to address inequality
The Education International (EI) Research Network (ResNet), which brings together trade unionists and researchers, explained that the global teacher shortage cannot be understood — or confronted — without addressing the gendered inequalities that shape education systems, the workplace, and the profession itself.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
5 June 2026
Belgium: budget cuts to state education adopted in a denial of democracy
Despite strong public opposition and strike action in schools across the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB) called by a united front of education unions, the FWB Parliament, meeting in a plenary session, voted in the early hours of 5 June to approve the government’s planned cuts in education spending.
Effective school leadership should top global and national policy agendas
Supporting quality, inclusive and supportive school leadership should at the top of global and national development and education policy agendas. This was the call from education union officials, school leaders, educational leadership experts, policy makers and partners at the school leadership conference organized by Education International in Johannesburg, South Africa...