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“Our collective efforts show considerable progress on advocacy, capacity building, research, communications, and solidarity…as there is not yet a ‘standardised test’for international organisations, you will have to grade us based on common sense.”

The torch was passed on the last day of Education International’s Seventh World Congress as the new Executive Board was officially welcomed and delegates paid tribute to outgoing members.

Commercialisation and privatisation in and of education will be at the heart of Education International’s agenda for the next four years as the organisation concluded a successful Seventh World Congress in Ottawa, Canada.

Sungho Byun, President of the Korean Teachers and Education, brought an urgent resolution before Congress in response to the 60 thousand teachers from KTU who lost their union after the government decertified them earlier this year.

Several resolutions were passed at Education International’s 7th World Congress on the promotion of democracy, sustainable development, fair trade, basic social service and health and safety through solidarity and cooperation among member organisations, the international trade union movement and civil society.

“The situation of trade unions rights in Arab countries remains of grave concern,” said Patrick Roach, of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers who addressed Congress on Resolution 2.10 Resolution: Issues in the Arab Countries.

In almost 60 percent of countries, workers – including teachers - are excluded from fundamental labour rights, said Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) when addressing EI’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, on 26 July.

Education support personnel (ESP) were celebrated in an Education International (EI) video presented to EI’s 7th World Congress on 25 July. The animated video was entitled, ‘It takes the entire education workforce to educate the whole child’.

Ahead of the 7th Education International Congress in Ottawa, Canada, 70 participants from 25 countries representing 50 French-speaking unions discussed on 19 July the role of languages in education and culture, and reflected on the future of education post-2015.

The status and employment conditions of education support personnel, young and early stage teachers, and researchers were addressed during Education International’s 7th World Congress.

The quality of any education system relies on the quality of the teachers. That’s according to Montserrat Gomendio, Deputy Director General for Education with the OECD, who addressed EI’s 7th World Congress on 24 July.

Delegates at Education International’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, expressed unanimous support for Greece on 25 July when discussing austerity, debt, and the commodification of education.

The turbulence facing Latin America, including the coup d’état in Honduras were among the concerns from that region raised at Education International’s 7th World Congress on 24 July in Ottawa, Canada.

The denial of union rights and the unjust treatment of union members in the Asia-Pacific Region were highlighted at Education International’s 7th World Congress on 24 July in Ottawa, Canada.

Issues from the African region were addressed at Education International’s 7th World Congress on 24 July in Ottawa, Canada.

Education International’s 7th World Congress has voiced its support on 24 July for the global organisation’s new Human and Trade Union Rights Policy Paper.

Education International (EI) must – and will – work to ensure that education is made available to displaced children, according to Education International’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada.