Nous réunissons nos organisations membres pour examiner et partager nos expériences, nos bonnes pratiques et nos idées pour répondre aux défis collectifs. Ensemble, nous construisons les syndicats de l’éducation du futur : des organisations à participation massive qui reflètent les divers intérêts et identités de leurs membres et offrent aux éducateur·trice·s une multitude de façons de s'engager et de contribuer.
Banda Aceh, Indonésie – De jeunes filles parées de magnifiques coiffes dorées et vêtues de costumes traditionnels de brocard vert et noir lançaient des fleurs roses tout en dansant pour accueillir les visiteurs à la cérémonie de clôture du projet post-tsunami de l’Internationale de l’Education à Aceh, la région du...
L’IE aide à rebâtir l’éducation après le désastre du tsunami
The Ceylon Tamil Teachers’ Union (CTTU) submitted a report to the Sri Lankan minister of education, Hon Susil Prema Jeyanth, expressing its concerns about teachers and pupils currently living in refugee camps in the Vanni region, located in the northern part of the country.
Sri Lanka: Union concerned about situation of displaced teachers and pupils
Two Liberian teacher unions ALPO (All Liberian Professional Organisation) and NTAL (National Teachers Association of Liberia) have launched a community based project to construct adequate housing in rural areas for teachers.
The ALPO/NTAL Rural Teachers Housing Project in Liberia
Girls in exquisite golden headdresses and traditional costumes of green and black brocade tossed pink flower blossoms as they danced to welcome visitors to the closing ceremony of Education International’s post-tsunami project in Aceh, the region of northern Sumatra most devastated by the cataclysmic tsunami of 26 December 2004.
EI helps rebuild education after tsunami’s devastation
It is not easy to have a constructive dialogue when the speakers do not hear one another. The result usually is confrontation, conflict and failure to conclude agreements.
Quality pay and working conditions: a step towards quality education in Georgia
Turkish police and security forces used excessive violence against teachers who were demonstrating for the right to collective bargaining.
Attacks continue on Turkish teachers
The latest edition of EI’s flagship publication focuses on the global economic crisis and the struggle of teacher trade unionists to ensure that governments worldwide include significant investment in education as part of their recovery plans.
Worlds of Education: June edition now on-line
The latest issue of the newsletter of EI's Asia-Pacific region is now available for download in pdf format.
April 2009 issue of the EI Asia-Pacific newsletter now available for download
The impact of the financial crisis on education services and on teachers salaries was one of the dominant issues considered when the EI European Regional Committee, which also includes the Executive Board of ETUCE, the body which deals with the European Union issues, met in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday...
EI European Committee tackles impact of financial crisis on education
The EI Executive Board has confirmed its choice of Cape Town, South Africa, as the venue for the 2011 World Congress. The Congress will take place from 19-26 July 2011 in the Cape Town International Conference Centre (CTICC) which is near the waterfront and surrounded by many hotels. The large...
Cape Town for EI Congress 2011
As millions of people around the world suffer the impact of the economic crisis, the global trade union movement is developing a bold strategy for recovery, a strategy based on social justice, decent jobs and international solidarity instead of unfairness, exploitation and greed.
Getting the World to Work: Global Union Strategies for Recovery
Teachers and trade unionists were well-represented among the 35,000 demonstrators who marched through the streets of London on 28 March to demand that leaders of the G20 make the needs of working people and the poor top priority when they meet this week to draft a global economic recovery plan.
Teachers join in call for G20 to put people first
Members of EI's Executive Board discussed a wide range of issues, in particular the emerging impact of the global economic crisis on public education around the world. Expressing concern that it will be a deep and lengthy crisis, the Board reaffirmed the importance of significant investment in quality public services...
Invest in education to mitigate economic crisis, EI leaders say
The first EI workshop on negotiations and organising was held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 12 -13 March 2009, thus paving the way for a new initiative to support its members in the South East European region.
Georgia: Pilot project on collective bargaining launched
Developing strategies to minimise the impact of the global economic crisis on teachers, teacher unions and the education sector worldwide will be one of the top-priority items on the agenda as leaders of Education International meet from 24-26 March in Brussels.
EI leaders tackle economic crisis, other pressing issues
La Terre est confrontée à un réel risque de changement climatique violent au cours des 10 à 30 prochaines années, dont les conséquences seront si désastreuses qu’il est absolument nécessaire que la communauté internationale mette dès à présent en place une action concertée et radicale.
Compétences syndicales et action radicale requises dans le cadre du changement climatique
The Education International Africa Regional Committee (EIARC) held its annual meeting in Lomé, Togo, from 16th-18th March. The representatives of the six zones of the African Region reviewed activities of the last year.
Africa: Unions to remind governments that education is central in the achievements of Millenium Development Goals
The 29th edition of EI's flagship magazine "Worlds of Education" focuses on the latest EI documentary produced for the Video for Union Educators (VUE) project: "Beyond Burma: lessons in hope for refugee children". The video offers a glimpse into the lives of dedicated teachers who, with few resources but plenty...
Latest edition of Worlds of Education now available for download