Reunimos a nuestras organizaciones miembros con el fin de debatir y compartir experiencias, buenas prácticas e ideas sobre cómo responder a los retos colectivos. Juntos estamos construyendo los sindicatos de la educación del futuro: organizaciones de participación masiva que reflejen los diversos intereses e identidades de sus miembros y ofrezcan a los educadores y educadoras una multitud de formas de participar y contribuir.
Education International and the International Trade Union Confederation are recommending that member organisations, and in particular those in the G20 countries, be represented at a TUC- organised march and rally in London on 28th March, immediately prior to the meeting of the G20 countries in London on 2nd April.
Let world leaders know what your organisation thinks - join the pre-G20 demonstration in London on 28th March!
On 1 January 2009 the contract between the Lebanese government and private hospitals to provide medical services to teachers and state employees expired. As of this date private hospitals refused to provide medical treatment to their previous patients even in crucial cases where immediate help was needed, i.e. kidney dialysis...
Lebanon: LPESPL, driving force against cuts in health care provision for teachers and state employees
The British government of Gordon Brown, host for the second G20 Summit in London on 2 April, is proposing “The Global Deal” as a basis for recovery from the worldwide financial and economic crisis.
Education should be in “The Global Deal” at the G20 Summit in London, 2 April 2009
The International Monetary Fund reports that increased government spending on public education will have a more powerful impact on the financial crisis than tax cuts.
Government investment in education helps fight financial crisis, says IMF
“Go after the teacher unions.” That was one piece of advice for President Barack Obama from media baron Rupert Murdoch, who spoke on 30 January to hundreds of business, union and civil society leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Labour leaders welcomed to White House as media magnate lashes out at teachers’ unions
El frágil sistema educativo de Haití ha sufrido otro duro golpe con los huracanes y las tormentas tropicales que sacudieron la isla en cuatro ocasiones durante los meses de agosto y septiembre. Las consiguientes inundaciones provocaron más de 800 víctimas mortales y casi 1.000 millones de dólares en daños y...
Hogares y escuelas devastados por los huracanes
Education International (EI), which represents 30 million educators worldwide, including the teachers’ organizations of Israel and Palestine, calls on the governments in both Gaza and Israel to do everything possible to prevent more children becoming victims of the current violence.
EI calls for exemption of education institutions from conflict in Palestine
Real progress on climate change will require collective action by governments worldwide, with the support and involvement of a whole range of social institutions, including trade unions.
Teacher unions tackle climate change, financial crisis
The Ugandan National Teachers Union (UNATU) presented its strategic plan at an All Donors Strategic Planning meeting in Kampala in mid November 2008. UNATU, sensitive to its role as a vibrant civil society organisation, is streamlining its development programme to better respond to the needs of its members and the...
Ugandan teachers plan for success
The latest issue of EI’s flagship magazine Worlds of Education features a series of articles celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th, and reasserting human and trade union rights of teachers and education workers everywhere.
Worlds of Education: A special edition on human and trade union rights
EI’s annual Development Cooperation Meeting was held on 20 and 21 November 2008 in Brussels. The main topic of discussion was the development of a new statement of policy reflecting the current context of development cooperation in a globalized world.
Unions and development organisations cooperate to meet global challenges
Education International is organising a conference titled “Governance, Financing, Evaluation and Climate Change – Key Challenges for Public Education” for its affiliates in the OECD countries.
Key Challenges for Public Education
In the wake of the tragic collapse of two schools in Haiti’s capital Port au Prince, Education International is calling on the government and education authorities in Haiti to ensure all schools meet strict safety standards.
EI demands Haitian government investigate school collapse
In May 2008, Education International and some of the Consortium partners (teacher unions from Australia, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the United States) were represented at the first meeting which was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to formally initiate the cooperation and partnership with the EI affiliates in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and...
Promising results in the first year of the EI Central Asia Programme
Marcel Larocque is the president of the Association of French Speaking Teachers of New Brunswick in Canada. In April 2008, he went to Guinea to evaluate the effects and potential for development of a post-primary education programme organised by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF). He was accompanied by the Canadian...
Post-primary vocational education in Guinea
From October 19 to 21, 43 regional leaders of the General Union of Palestine Teachers (GUPT) participated in an organizing and training workshop designed to launch a series of training programs for the union to run through 2009.
Organizing and Development Training Program for Unions in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority
Within the framework of EI's new Middle East and North Africa (MENA) programme, EI organized two training workshops with EI members in Lebanon, the League of Secondary Public School Teachers in Lebanon (LPESPL) and the Teachers’ Syndicate in Lebanon (TSL).
Workshop strengthens Lebanese unions under the MENA programme
The EI EFAIDS Evaluation and Planning Workshop for EI staff and partners was held in early September and provided an opportunity to review the Programme which has expanded steadily since 2006 and is now successfully implemented in almost fifty countries across four regions.
EFAIDS looks ahead to 2009