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In September 2010, Mireille de Koning, from EI’s Research Unit, set off on a visit to four states in India to undertake research on teacher training for non- and under-qualified (contract) primary teachers. She spent her time meeting with policy makers and teachers about the main challenges to quality teacher...

A new model of integration is emerging based on an equally integrationist curriculum in education centres. Secondary school teachers usually take a positive approach to inter-cultural education, although there is an evident correlation between the favourable attitudes of teachers and their training.

It is recommended that immigrant parents speak their language at home. In some poorer parts of London, employees at crèches and some NGO organisations regularly provide books for immigrant families to read to their children in their own language or in English. This is being done so that pre-schooling gets...

Findings from a new study conducted by EI’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) Task Force reveal that, while ECE continues to receive more attention across the globe, progress has been uneven and much more remains to be done.

The GEW, Germany’s largest teachers’ union, has called for immediate federal action on teacher training to increase the number of student and probationary teachers’ positions.

“When it comes to education, Chile is the best of all possible worlds for the privileged.” Fernando Atria, University of Chile

The release of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in December showed that U.S. students were ranked average in reading and science, and below average in maths. While the findings were not a great surprise they did generate a rush of media coverage about how the nation’s students...

International migration, including skilled labour migration has become a global phenomenon that is rising to the top of the policy agenda. UN data shows that around 214 million people – or 3.1 per cent of the world’s population – live outside their country of birth. Women constitute about 50 per...

When the recently elected Conservative and Liberal British government announced that it wanted to transfer the burden of funding education from the state to students, the UCU and its allies from student, parent and teaching all came together to build the first wave of opposition to cuts in vital public...

The ’four per cent for education’ campaign in Santo Domingo is neither whimsical nor propaganda. It is a fully-costed response to a need that has legal and institutional grounds for support.

EI’s Communication’s unit brought together counterparts from affiliate members in Europe and North America at the annual EI Communicators’ Network (ComNet)meeting in Brussels, Belgium, from 21-22 September 2010.

A New Year’s pledge from hardline Republican Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, to remove teachers’ collective bargaining rights, as well as their health benefits and pension entitlements, has brought thousands of pro-union demonstrators on to the streets in all 50 U.S. states in solidarity with the Wisconsin unions.

Heads of state and government joined international and research organisations, as well as civil society groups, trade unions, and the private sector, in New York, from 20-22 September, to check on progress made towards attainment of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

School leaders and representatives of EI’s member organisations have raised serious concerns about the impact of the economic crisis on education budgets and trade union rights.

The G20 Summit held in Seoul, Korea, on 11-12 November was marked by growing tensions between the world’s two biggest economies – the United States and China – and a failure to address fundamental issues required for sustainable growth and prosperity – including investment in education.

In its new report Education at Glance 2010, the OECD presents a vast array of statistics relating to education in its 33 member countries. The report should be given close scrutiny by education unions as it has traditionally been used to argue for more efficient spending and further strengthening of...

Jan Eastman is EI’s Deputy General Secretary with responsibility for human, trade union and equality rights. She is former chairperson of EI’s Status of Women Committee. Jan is a native of Tasmania. She taught English and Social Studies in Canada before specialising in educating students with learning disabilities. In this...

In 2000 the United Nations’ Millennium Development Summit agreed to eradicate global poverty and save millions of lives through coordinated activity. In 2002, leaders of 189 countries agreed to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Five years ahead of the deadline, progress has been uneven and the UN...