The French affiliates of Education International are mobilising on 10 October to defend civil servants’ purchasing power and working conditions as they press for improvements in the quality of public services. A day of strikes and demonstrations in France has...
Canada: Recognition for vital role of school support staff Strong recognition was given to the crucial role played by educational support staff in the lives of educational establishments and their students during Quebec's National School Support Staff Day. The essential...
Discrimination is ravaging many British schools, according to a Government audit, and educators are determined to change that. The UK Government’s newly published audit into racial disparity in public services highlights thevastly different experiences of ethnic groups in Britain’s schools,...
Education International celebrates the annual day for promoting the empowerment of girls and the fulfilment of their human rights, as well as highlighting existing challenges faced by girls all over the world. The theme for this year’s international day of...
With the Asia Pacific region facing serious challenges to its education system, educators in the region have gathered to focus on the future, sharpen their analysis and decide a common ground for action. At the Asia Pacific regional conference of...
The combination of chronic underfunding and private, profit-driven interests are being lethal to the Nepalese public education system, a new study finds. Nepal: Patterns of Privatisation in Education. A case study of low-fee private schools and private chain schoolsanalyses the...
Asia-Pacific education union leaders reiterated their commitment to quality education for all, working towards countering for-profit education privatisation, increasing teacher professionalism and demanding respect for educators’ human and trade union rights. Nepalese government’s response to EI’s study on public education...
Ghanaian trade union leaders have warmly welcomed the decision of Ghana’s president to set up the Free Senior High School Programme. There has been widespread support for the introduction of the Free Senior High School (SHS) Programme in Ghana. The...
Africa’s education union leaders go to school to sharpen their understanding of gender issues The Africa Women in Education Network’s Trainers of Trainers Programme is bringing new skills and tools to education union activists and women mobilisers. Fifteen gender desk...
EI consults teachers globally on professional status Education International is currently carrying out an extensive and ground-breaking worldwide survey that explores teachers’ realities and perceptions globally. Global developments, marked simultaneously by the rapid diffusion of ideas, technological advances, and market-led...
The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) was formed in 1999 in Toronto-Canada and formally announced its formation in January 2000. In nearly two decades of continuous activism, we have played an impactful role in securing international support for Iranian workers’ struggles against the Islamic Republic of Iran, employers, and the inhumane conditions the capitalist order has imposed on working-class lives in Iran. During these years, our politics and the foundational basis guiding our activism have been predicated on working-class traditions with an uncompromising emphasis on working-class independence and autonomy.