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Over 1,800 public primary schools in India’s capital closed on 5 November for the first time ever to protect students from exposure to dangerous levels of air pollution, affecting more than a million children.

The crucial role of educators indelivering education for sustainable development and climate change education was reaffirmed at the “Sustainability starts with educators” roundtable at the 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

With conflicts around the world driving people to seek asylum from violence and persecution, Education International is bringing together teacher unions, governments and civil society organisations to address the link between education and integration.

Researchers and union leaders at Education International’s Research Network Africa learnt how to use online tools and develop in-depth approaches to qualitative interviews during dynamic and practical skill-focused sessions.

Numerous Francophone education unions have pushed for the realisation of the sustainable development goal on education, and discussed ways to improve basic education in their countries, and in particular in Madagascar.

African researchers and union leaders are coming together in Accra, Ghana, to showcase the use by African education unions of compelling evidence-based research to strengthen their advocacy work and shape education policy.

Academic freedom, international solidarity, gender, casualisation and privatisation came under the spotlight at Education International’s 10th International Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, attended by leaders of tertiary education and research.

Miguel Angel Beltrán, a prominent academic invited to deliver a keynote on free speech at Education International’s higher education conference in Ghana had to once again overcome political discrimination in order to reach his destination.

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Elie Jouen, who was Deputy General Secretary at Education International from its foundation until he retired shortly after the Berlin Congress, in 2008.

Education International is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Flocken as the new European Director of ETUCE (European Trade Union Committee for Education), the European Region of EI.

After a hard-fought and divisive judicial battle, British Columbia’s educators are celebrating a Supreme Court decision that reaffirms collective bargaining rights and opens the door to the hiring of hundreds of teachers.

The Francophone Trade Union Committee for Education and Training is meeting in Madagascar to share the French-speaking perspective on union rights to the precarious position of teachers and the private financing of education.