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In an era of stretched public budgets and reduced taxation revenues, the involvement of private resources is increasingly seen as a strategy to sustain expansion of education opportunities both in quantity and quality. This view is shared not only by governments and industry, but also by many unions.

This report presents the findings of a study on teachers’ pay in Europe, commissioned by EI/ ETUCE/, and conducted by the European Trade Union Institute’s research department in the summer of 2008.

The trend towards privatization of public education is hidden. It is camouflaged by the language of “educational reform,” or introduced stealthily as “modernization”.

PISA 2006 has proven to have an enormous impact on the education policy debate at worldwide level. First and foremost, PISA has been at the centre of the debate about national education policies, in many ways. On the one side, in fact, it has often managed to orientate governments‟ political...

The purpose of this survey was to investigate teacher supply, teacher attrition, teacher remuneration and motivation, teacher absenteeism and union involvement in policy development in six Anglophone African countries: The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania Uganda and Zambia.

In order to gather additional information on the impact of structural adjustment on education, as well as to assist teachers’ unions in the task of devising alternative strategies on education and structural adjustment and make member organisations more aware of the problems associated with structural adjustment, Education International decided to...