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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 May 2025
Germany: education unions welcome new federal minister and call for ambitious reforms

Germany’s education unions, the VBE and GEW, welcome the appointment of Karin Prien as Minister for Education, Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Young People and call for ambitious reforms to improve education in Germany. The unions express high expectations and emphasise the need for massive investment to meet existing challenges...
Germany: education unions welcome new federal minister and call for ambitious reforms
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 February 2025
Germany: Education unions united to save remedial classes for primary schools

In a controversial move, the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government plans to eliminate remedial classes from the primary school curriculum. This decision has been met with strong opposition from the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) NRW and the Verband Bildung und Erziehung (VBE) NRW, arguing that this “grave mistake” is...
Germany: Education unions united to save remedial classes for primary schools
Democracy 3 February 2025
Germany: Unions denounce extremist political party presence in education trade fair

After learning about the presence of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) political party at Germany's largest education fair, didacta, the two largest educational unions in Germany, the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (Education and Science Union-GEW) and the Verband Bildung und Erziehung (Association for Education and Training-VBE), expressed their strong disapproval...
Germany: Unions denounce extremist political party presence in education trade fair
Trade union rights are human rights 27 January 2025
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: "We must take a stand, when the warning bell of history tolls so insistently”

On January 27, 2025, Holocaust Remembrance Day, educators and union leaders from over 20 countries gathered in Krakow to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: "We must take a stand, when the warning bell of history tolls so insistently”
Go public! Fund education 2 July 2024
Go Public! G7 milestone achieved by Education International and member solidarity

Education International (EI), alongside member organisations from G7 countries, sent a powerful message about the fundamental role of education unions and social dialogue ahead of the G7 Italy 2024 Ministerial meeting on Education.
Go Public! G7 milestone achieved by Education International and member solidarity
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 July 2023
Inclusive, quality education: the key to ending child labour

From India to Senegal, from Albania to Uganda and Mali, Education International (EI) members raised their voices in support of quality education to commemorate World Day Against Child Labour on June 12th.
Inclusive, quality education: the key to ending child labour