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Research

  1. Standards and working conditions

    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 2025

    The 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...

    In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises
    1. Report
    2. Summary
  2. Research

    Rising Voices: Women’s Leadership in Arab Education Unions

    Opportunities, Challenges, Obstacles & Solutions for Increasing Women’s Participation and Leadership

    24 June 2025

    Maha Rissouni, June 2025 Education International decided to conduct this study in six Arab countries in partnership with a significant number of Arab education unions: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.

    Rising Voices: Women’s Leadership in Arab Education Unions
    1. Executive Summary (English)
    2. Executive Summary (Arabic)
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

    School Leadership in Africa: Policy and Practice

    23 June 2025

    This 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.

    School Leadership in Africa: Policy and Practice
    1. School Leadership in Africa: Policy and Practice
  4. Climate action and literacy

    Towards quality climate change education for all: A critical assessment of climate education policies in India and the Philippines

    Dr. Ruchira Das, Dr. Ranjana Das

    4 June 2025

    This research project explores and critically analyses climate change education policies and their execution in two South Asian nations that are pronouncedly susceptible to the impacts of climate change, the Philippines and India.

    Towards quality climate change education for all: A critical assessment of climate education policies in India and the Philippines
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  5. Standards and working conditions

    Just Wages for Public School Teachers in Lebanon

    Teacher Remuneration During Emergencies

    12 May 2025

    The under-resourcing of the public education sector in Lebanon negatively impacts teachers’ labour rights, working conditions, wages, professional development, and well-being. These issues stem from systemic problems tied to Lebanon’s political and economic context.

    Just Wages for Public School Teachers in Lebanon
    1. Summary (ARA)
    2. Summary (ENG)
  6. Standards and working conditions

    Teacher Compensation in Crisis Contexts: Challenges in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

    Dr. Eman Najjar, Dr. Hilmi Hamdan

    5 May 2025

    This study aims to investigate the primary factors contributing to irregular salary disbursements in Palestine during emergencies, identify potential interventions to address the issue, and evaluate the consequences of financial instability on the quality of education.

    Teacher Compensation in Crisis Contexts: Challenges in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
    1. Research Paper
    2. Summary
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

    Teacher compensation in crisis contexts: Problems & paradoxes for paying teachers in South Sudan

    Mading Peter Angong, Sarah Etzel, Whitney Hough, Mary Mendenhall, Kemigisha Richardson, Tiffany Tryon, Malok Mading Wol

    28 April 2025

    Teachers are essential to upholding the right to quality education for children in crisis and displacement contexts, yet they often experience delayed, irregular, or insufficient compensation, leading to demotivation, absenteeism, and destabilization of educational systems.

    Teacher compensation in crisis contexts: Problems & paradoxes for paying teachers in South Sudan
    1. Research Paper
    2. Executive Summary
    3. Recommendations on government teachers
    4. Recommendations on incentive teachers
  8. Future of work in education

    The Global Status of Teachers 2024

    Dr. Ben Arnold, Dr. Mark Rahimi

    23 January 2025

    The Global Status of Teachers report provides a global and regional analysis of the status and conditions of the teaching profession by representing the views of teacher unions worldwide.

    The Global Status of Teachers 2024
    1. Research
  9. Equity and inclusion

    Unions leading the way to decolonise education

    Gabriela Bonilla

    10 December 2024

    This research on the decolonisation of education aims to promote further reflection among Education International (EI) member organisations on the role of unions, teachers, and policy in the decolonisation of education.

    Unions leading the way to decolonise education
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  10. Leading the profession

    Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment: Full Report of International Research Findings

    Carol Campbell, Christopher DeLuca, Danielle LaPointe-McEwan, Maeva Ceau, Nathan Rickey

    7 November 2024

    The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project facilitated professional learning and development to advance teachers’ leadership of educational improvement with a focus on increasing confidence in, understanding of, and use of student focused formative assessment practices for enhanced student learning. The dual focus on both teachers’ development and...

    Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment: Full Report of International Research Findings
    1. Full report
    2. Executive summary
    3. Resumo executivo
  11. Equity and inclusion

    Report on the 2024 Education International Quadrennial Survey on LGBTI+ Rights in Education

    28 July 2024

    The 2024 Quadrennial Survey aims to provide an informative cross-section of union policies, advocacy points and current educational challenges, together with selected case studies which seek to advance EI’s work furthering and protecting LGBTI+ rights in and through education.

    Report on the 2024 Education International Quadrennial Survey on LGBTI+ Rights in Education
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