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  1. Leading the profession 16 April 2013

    Interview to Nina Bascia, University of Toronto

    Nina Bascia is a Professor and Director of the Collaborative Educational Policy Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She is the author and editor of seven books and numerous articles on educational change and teachers’ work.

    Interview to Nina Bascia, University of Toronto
  2. Union renewal and development 15 March 2013

    Susan Hopgood: Closing speech, International Summit on the Teaching Profession 2013

    At the 2013 International Summit on the Teaching Profession, we have made tremendous progress in our debate about the evaluation of teachers. As our colleagues from Germany reminded us today, we have not just been talking about evaluation. We have been talking about the overall policy on teachers and education...

    Susan Hopgood: Closing speech, International Summit on the Teaching Profession 2013
  3. Standards and working conditions 14 March 2013

    Fred van Leeuwen's speech at the ISTP 2013

    EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, addresses the Third International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) 2013

    Fred van Leeuwen's speech at the ISTP 2013
  4. Union renewal and development 4 March 2013

    John Bangs: Defining quality education

    Thoughts on the upcoming International Summit on the Teaching Profession, by John Bangs, Senior Consultant to the General Secretary

    John Bangs: Defining quality education
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 January 2013

    Pauline Rose: Business leaders at the World Economic Forum must boost finance for education

    As political and business leaders gather in Davos for another year’s World Economic Forum, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report has released a new policy paper showing that contributions from corporations and private foundations combined total only $683 million a year, equivalent to just 5% that aid donors spend...

    Pauline Rose: Business leaders at the World Economic Forum must boost finance for education
  6. Trade union rights are human rights 21 December 2012

    Dave Lindorff: Heroes or Greedy Moochers at the Public Trough?

    I’ll be brief here. Let’s just note that the heroic teachers who died while courageously trying to protect their kids at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, and the others who survived but stayed to protect the kids, were all part of a school system where the employees...

    Dave Lindorff: Heroes or Greedy Moochers at the Public Trough?
  7. Trade union rights are human rights 15 December 2012

    Statement by Education International on School Shooting in Newtown USA on 14 December 2012

    The international community of educators and school employees, represented by Education International, is deeply shocked by the killing of twenty children and six adults in the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, USA, yesterday.

    Statement by Education International on School Shooting in Newtown USA on 14 December 2012
  8. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 December 2012

    The Vandals at the Gate

    Defending higher education in an age of austerity - a view from the University and College Union (United Kingdom) By Kathy Taylor, President, University and College Union, United Kingdom

    The Vandals at the Gate
  9. Union renewal and development 3 December 2012

    Fred van Leeuwen: Adress to the PSI Congress

    It is an honor to bring to this Congress the greetings of the Council of Global Unions and of my own organization: Education International. Let me start by congratulating Rosa on her election as your new General Secretary. Welcome, Rosa, to one of the most trying positions in our movement....

    Fred van Leeuwen: Adress to the PSI Congress
  10. Fighting the commercialisation of education 3 December 2012

    Negotiators press ahead with new services liberalisation agreement

    With World Trade Organisation negotiations stuck in neutral, a group of key WTO countries has launched a separate set of talks aimed at creating an International Services Agreement (ISA).

    Negotiators press ahead with new services liberalisation agreement
  11. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 November 2012

    Andreas Schleicher: You must emulate and innovate to keep pace

    The nature of education has moved on in high-performing nations; it's time the UK moved on too, says Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director for Education and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary-General.

    Andreas Schleicher: You must emulate and innovate to keep pace