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EI welcomes UNESCO’s new initiative, #TeacherTuesday. Over the next 10 Tuesdays, starting on 25 February, 10 teachers from 10 countries will share their stories with a global blogging network. UNESCO will release the stories of teachers who have taught through fighting in Syria, grappled with multilingual classrooms in Ecuador, fought...

EI welcomes UNESCO’s new initiative, #TeacherTuesday. Over the next 10 Tuesdays, starting on 25 February, 10 teachers from 10 countries will share their stories with a global blogging network. UNESCO will release the stories of teachers who have taught through fighting in Syria, grappled with multilingual classrooms in Ecuador, fought...

Monday, 16 September, marked the first day of industrial action by the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU), an EI affiliate. Teachers across Uganda are protesting at the Government’s failure to pay teachers a 20 per cent salary increment. After a series of negotiations and a teachers’ strike in 2011, an...

OLME launched a five–days rolling strike as of September 16th following the decision of the teachers’ general assemblies. At the end of each 5 days strike the teachers’ general assemblies will take stock of the situation and then decide on the course of the strike action.

The Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU), has announced that its members will go on strike as of 14 September. This move is a result of the Government’s failure to increase teachers’ salaries by 20 per cent in the 2013/14 budget.

The National Education Association (NEA), EI’s largest affiliate in the United States, has launched a nationwide campaign to encourage educators to become leaders in a national movement for quality public education.

The 21st Congress of the Teachers’ Association of the Republic of Indonesia (PGRI), EI’s largest national affiliate, has called on the government to invest in teachers and education, and improve teacher's living conditions by giving them decent salaries.

EI initiated on March 16, 2013 the first of its 4 forums with education unions in Egypt . Over 90 activists from independent organizations of teachers, university, and educational workers met in Cairo, Egypt to discuss challenges facing workers in the education sector and how to strengthen democratic unions. They...

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the two largest EI national affiliates in the UK, have recommended a video about the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. The video looks at the policies pursued by Gove...

EI national affiliate the Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU) has welcomed the Gambia's Consul General to the Republic of Italy, His Excellency Francesco Cristina di Santannera, statement highlighting the importance of education, acknowledging that it is the foundation for any nation’s development. He asserted that without education, no country can develop...

EI national affiliate the Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU) has welcomed the Gambia's Consul General to the Republic of Italy, His Excellency Francesco Cristina di Santannera, statement highlighting the importance of education, acknowledging that it is the foundation for any nation’s development. He asserted that without education, no country can develop...

Public sector trade unions in Swaziland, including EI affiliate Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT), have reacted negatively to the announcement of a 30 per cent pay rise for junior police officers, because a pay freeze has been applied to teachers!

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

Teacher evaluation is the main topic under review at the third International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 13-14 March.

Members of the Centrale de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche scientifique (CSC-Enseignement), one of EI’s national affiliates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, support the teachers’ strike that started on 18 February in the South Kivu region. The strikers are protesting about the non-payment of their salaries, in...

EI has sent a solidarity letter supporting its national affiliates, the Teachers’ Syndicate of Lebanon (TSL),) the Ligue des professeurs de l’enseignement public du Liban (LPESPL), and the League of Technical and Vocational Teachers (CETO). It is asking its affiliates to write to the Lebanese Government, to push for the...