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News 29 August 2025 Historic Santiago Consensus puts teachers at heart of education transformation
World Summit on Teachers delivers comprehensive framework demanding sustainable investment in teaching profession
Ministers, teacher unions and education leaders meeting at the World Summit on Teachers in Chile have adopted the Santiago Consensus, a comprehensive framework that commits governments to address the global shortage of 50 million teachers through concrete policy action.
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News 21 August 2025 Communications toolkit for the World Summit on Teachers
The World Summit on Teachers is an unprecedented opportunity for the world to move from words to action on education. You can follow it live here. As ministers and education leaders prepare to convene for the World Summit on Teachers (WST) on 28-29 August, the global teaching profession faces an...
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News 19 August 2025 Go Public: trade unions build mutual strength by sharing their campaign experiences
Mobilising the teaching profession, and communities as a whole. For two and a half years, education unions around the world have been engaged in the global Go Public! Fund Education campaign launched by Education International (EI). A number of them have shared best practices and examples of successful trade union...
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News 19 August 2025 Building momentum for public education in the Pacific
Education unions from across the Pacific region – Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu – met to address the ongoing worldwide teacher shortages, calling governments and international institutions to prioritize public education and invest in teachers, echoing the United Nations (UN) recommendations on the teaching profession .
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Worlds of Education 18 August 2025 Constant changes in Irish second-level education hamper teacher agency
Conor Murphy
Skibbereen Cathedral stands on a hill on the left-hand side of the road as you enter the town. This slight elevation means that you have to walk up two flights of steps to get to the entrance, it also means that, no matter how nice the weather, there’s always a...
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Worlds of Education 13 August 2025 Education Voices | How persistent solidarity secured a historic win on pensions for higher education workers in the UK
Jo Grady
This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .
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Worlds of Education 31 July 2025 Education voices | Rising against the drive to commercialise higher education in Fiji
Rosalia Fatiaki
This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .
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News 22 July 2025 From “unseen hands” to recognised professionals: Major union victory for education support personnel in the Philippines
When the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) launched the Education International (EI) Go Public! Fund Education campaign in The Philippines, the union ensured that the country’s 120,000 education support personnel (ESP) were at the very center of its advocacy. ACT mobilised around the rights, living and working conditions of the...
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News 9 July 2025 Education International opens consultations to ensure voice of the profession is heard in the revision of international Recommendations on the status of teaching personnel
In the lead up to the revision of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers (1966) and the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997), Education International (EI) has launched a consultation process with its 375 member organisations representing over 33 million educators in 180 countries...
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Research In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises
Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou
30 June 2025In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises See resources 2The research examines recent trends in the higher education sector and how they align with the current provisions of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997) and the recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. It also analyses higher education unions' experience with...
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Worlds of Education 30 June 2025 Not the exception, but essential: Teachers with disabilities in mainstream classrooms
Nidhi Singal
Where are the teachers with disabilities in our classrooms? A question I often ask my audience is: “How many of you were taught by a teacher who identified as having a disability during your school years?” In a room of 50–60 people, usually only one or two hands go up.
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News 26 June 2025 From policy to practice: Elevating education leadership and formative assessment in Africa
Discussing effective leadership strategies and sharing insights from their respective countries. That is what brought together union leaders from Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire during the workshop “Elevating school and teacher leadership for quality education,” convened by Education International Africa (EIA) and aiming at enhancing school and teacher leadership...
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Research School Leadership in Africa: Policy and Practice
23 June 2025School Leadership in Africa: Policy and Practice See resources 1This study, commissioned by Education International Africa and carried out by Dr Casmir Chanda, sheds light on key issues surrounding school leadership through a comprehensive analysis of education policies and the lived experiences of school principals' union leaders across the continent.
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News 20 June 2025 Go Public: Zimbabwe's education union’s successful push towards education quality and funding
Awareness raising activities in all regions of the country, continued dialogue between educators and policymakers, enhanced teacher professional training and certification. These are some of the achievements of the Zimbabwe Teacher’s Association (ZIMTA) since the national launch of the Education International (EI) Go Public! Fund Education campaign.
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News 17 June 2025 Teacher unionists lead the change in educational innovation in India
At a time when public education budgets are being slashed, Indian teachers' unions are stepping up to drive transformative change in classrooms across the nation. Demonstrating the powerful role of teachers’ unions in transforming education, more than 350 educators and union leaders from across India gathered at the National Educational...
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News 11 June 2025 Canada: Quebec’s Premier must “backtrack” and fully fund higher education
In Canada, the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ) and its federations in the college system are denouncing cuts of 150 million Canadian dollars (around 96 million euros) by 2025-2026 and are calling on Premier François Legault to restore funding for the CEGEPs, the public education institutions where the first...
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News 10 June 2025 Iraq: Educators’ historic strike leads to salary increases and progress for education
In a landmark victory for educators across Iraq, the Iraqi Teachers’ Union (ITU) has successfully led a nationwide strike, resulting in significant policy changes that benefit teachers and the education sector. This mobilization, following the national launch of the Education International (EI) Go Public! Fund Education campaign in 2024, led...
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News 6 June 2025 Francophone EI member organisations join forces to strengthen unions and promote public education
During the last board meeting of the Francophone Union Committee for Education and Training (CSFEF), discussions shed light on the common challenges unions in different countries have been facing, as well as their achievements and initiatives to defend union rights and improve public education. The meeting was also an opportunity...
Francophone EI member organisations join forces to strengthen unions and promote public education