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A set of health and safety recommendations was adopted by the ETUCE Committee on 14/15 April 2014. The recommendations indicate how teacher unions can work and act together in times of crisis to maintain and promote health and safe working conditions in the education sector.

EI/ETUCE affiliates GEW (German Education and Research Workers’ Union) and SULF (Swedish Association of University Teachers) joined in cooperation to fight for quality education and decent working conditions in higher education at the 5th Follow-up Congress on the Templin Manifesto of GEW held on 2 April 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

The Spanish teacher unions FETE-UGT, FECCOO and STES-I invited Spanish candidates for the European elections on 25 May 2014 to a panel discussion, asking them to make education a priority, their priority.

Children with disabilities are more likely to be out of school than any other group of children. The Global Campaign for Education’s action week from 4-10 May 2014 aims to challenge the exclusion faced by disabled children in realising their right to education.

Turkish unions are making it clear that they will move ahead with peaceful celebrations on the first of May, despite a government prohibition of events in Istanbul’s most iconic square.

Moving abroad to teach can be a complicated and uncertain process, full of cultural adjustments, visa challenges, and for some seeking a better way of life, can involve the violation of their rights.

“Teacher unions are instrumental in improving the quality of education and empowering teachers and support personnel” was the message Education International made loud and clear to European leaders in education and government.

EI is horrified to learn that 61-year-old Spanish teacher Anne Maguire was stabbed to death in front of students on 28 April at the Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, UK. A 15-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the incident.

Attacks against teachers’ rights and the threats to public education in Honduras have been denounced at a meeting last week of the Federation of Honduran Teachers’ Organisations (FOMH) and the Direct Contact Mission of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

To mark May Day, Education International is calling on governments worldwide to respect teachers’ human and trade union rights.

EI wants free universal quality education for all to be a key priority for governments in the post-2015 agenda. That was the message from EI Deputy General Secretary David Edwards at EI’s 10th annual EI Research Network meeting being held from 28-29 April in Brussels, Belgium.

The global learning crisis is costing governments worldwide over $129 billion a year and excluding millions of children from education. Giving support to teachers is key in order to overcome this, according to the Global Monitoring Report (GMR) of 2014.

A principal’s opinion piece in the New York Times criticizing standardized testing in US schools has invoked a fierce reaction of support from the top of one of America’s biggest teachers’ unions.

Education International (EI), together with social partner agencies and academic institutions, was represented at a workshop on the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) organised by the Global Migration Group Task Force on Migration and Decent Work, held at the International labour organisation (ILO)-International Training Centre (ITC), in Turin, Italy, from 23-24...

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), one of EI national affiliates, has announced that it applied for a television broadcasting license to provide educational content that has been missing from TV and radio, to assist teachers in providing students with better quality education.

The ETUCE Committee expressed strong solidarity with the ETUCE members and their affiliates in Ukraine and unanimously supported the call to provide moral, political and financial support to our colleagues.

Words of support and grief for South Korea are arriving from around the world as dive teams continue to search for victims following the ferry sinking off the country’s south-western coast.

The new French Prime Minister says he will forge ahead with promised education reforms as three national teachers’ unions challenged his government to put quality education at the top of his agenda.