Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
30 July 2026
Southern African teacher unions’ renewed commitment to Go Public! Fund Education campaign
Education union leaders from across Southern Africa have reaffirmed their commitment to quality, inclusive, equitable and publicly financed education as a fundamental human right and a public good.
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...