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Thousands of education workers answered the call of the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU) and peacefully demonstrated on April 6th in Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar to demand increased salaries for teachers and education support personnel.

The 43rd meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) concluded with major wins for the rights of teachers and researchers to adapt and choose materials for quality education and research. Education International participated together with member organisations CONADU (Argentina), AUSPS (Fiji),...

Present in Brussels, Belgium, for a meeting of the Education International (EI) Development Cooperation Network , Don Howell, General Secretary of the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) - an Education International umbrella body for teachers in the Caribbean - and President of the Saint Lucia Teachers' Union (SLTU), explained how...

Education International (EI) sent a High-Level Mission to Eswatini to reiterate on-site the support of the education union community to colleagues in the country, and to urge the national governmental authorities to put an immediate halt to the persecution of Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) leaders, introduce democratic governance...

An Education International delegation visited the earthquake-affected area in Turkiye, meeting with teachers, unionists, volunteers, and local leaders to deliver a message of solidarity and convey condolences for the terrible losses suffered, but also to take stock of the scale of the destruction and the needs on the ground in...

Following the network event held in early March, the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project in Côte d'Ivoire held its fifth workshops in circles across the country on the 29th of March 2023.

The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project has continued to build momentum in Côte d'Ivoire. Thanks to an enthusiastic team, led by a dedicated national researcher Professor Claude Koutou, a second network event took place on the 8th of March 2023.

“Every child has the right to learn, play, and grow up without being exploited," stated All India Primary Teachers' Federation (AIPTF) General Secretary Kamala Kanta Tripathy during a recent mission led by Education International (EI) as part of EI's work to eliminate child labour.

The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project began in Brazil in early February. The project in Brazil is coordinated by its dedicated national researcher, Professor Dalila Andrade Oliveira.

UNSA Education has launched a survey of French educators for the 2023 edition of its Barometer of education professions. This survey will allow education staff to talk about their working conditions, their aspirations and their vision of their profession.

The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project aims to provide teachers with tools and support to identify and establish effective teacher-led formative assessment practices that can be disseminated within and across education unions. Research is a key part of the project.

The 67th session of the UN Committee on the Status of Women (CSW67) held in New York, March 6 to 17 adopted conclusions that acknowledge the critical role of technology and innovation in achieving gender equality and recognise the challenges to gender equality in the digital age.

Following a serious incident in a school, the Federaçao Caboverdiana dos Professores (FECAP), Education International’s member organisation in Cape Verde, has expressed deep concern and reiterated its rejection of all violence in educational settings against teachers, education support personnel or students.

The Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project held its first network event in South Korea on 18 and 19 February 2023. The network event provided a central place where project participants from Jeju, Kyungnam and Jeonbuk provinces could come together. This allowed for thirty teachers, six facilitators, two...

Since Türkiye and Syria were struck on February 6th by a devastating earthquake that left tens of thousands dead and injured, including hundreds of teachers, support staff, academics and other education workers, the Union of Teachers in Northeast Syria (UTNES) and the international education union community via Education international (EI)...

At its latest meeting, the Education International Africa Regional Committee (EIARC) has taken stock of current and upcoming activities and challenges for educators and their unions in the region and called on member organisations to join the EI Go Public! Fund Education campaign.

The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project aims to provide teachers with tools and support to identify and establish effective teacher-led formative assessment practices that can be disseminated within and across education unions.

The global union federation representing educators worldwide has brought financial support using its Solidarity Fund to help students, teachers and education support personnel severely affected by devastation caused by tropical Cyclone Freddy in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique.