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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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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....

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).