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.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
7 May 2026
Early childhood educators under strain: OECD evidence strengthens union demands for quality jobs and fair pay
New findings of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) Starting Strong, an international large-scale survey conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), underline a global reality and union demand: quality early childhood education (ECE) depends on stable jobs, supported by fair pay, time, training, and staffing...