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The government of Indonesia will annually increase the education budget as well as the salaries of teachers. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made that promise to the more than 5000 delegates and observers attending the opening session of the 20th Congress of the Indonesian teachers' union PGRI held in Palembang on...

Today, Public Services International, Education International and Oxfam International announced a joint call to world leaders, demanding funds for tens of millions of qualified health workers and teachers worldwide to be trained and hired to deliver public health and education for all. The current gap means that governments are failing...

EI's Belgian affiliates, CSC-Enseignement, ACOD and CGSP, joined the three national labour confederations in a united front to protest the declining purchasing power of workers.

Education International is strongly supporting the teachers of Lebanon in their strike action to back legitimate demands for a fair salary that reflects the high increase in the cost of living.

French education unions are mobilizing against the government’s plan to cut 11,200 teaching jobs at the beginning of the next school year. Since early last week, secondary teachers have been on strike at various schools throughout the country.

“The education public service deserves an ambitious policy. Unfortunately, the service is coming under pressure today due to job cuts.”

EI is joining the Commonwealth Secretariat in hosting the Third Commonwealth Teacher Research symposium which will be held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 19-21 Feb 2008.

Government in Zimbabwe has moved to stave off another crippling strike by awarding teachers an immediate 1000 percent pay rise.

A critical shortage of properly-trained and qualified teachers is threatening the achievement of Education for All targets and Millennium Development Goals by 2015, according to a new study by Education International.

Starting today, Senegalese teachers in primary and secondary public schools are on a 72-hour strike to make the government fulfil its promises on research and housing allowances.

Below is the speech, in English, of EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, at the UNESCO General Conference held on 22 October 2007 in Paris, France.

EI affiliate the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) had rejected the government's proposals on a new teacher payment regime which would link remuneration with performance.

On World Teachers’ Day - October 5th - teachers, students, parents and communities came together to celebrate the achievements of teachers, and to demand Quality Teachers for Quality Education!

The teacher strike in Bulgaria that began on 24 Sep has now entered its third week, and a clear resolution to the impasse is still not in sight.

On 5 October, World Teachers' Day, members of the Syndicat des Travailleurs des Etablissements scolaires privés du Cameroun (SYNTESPRIC) held a demonstration to demand the government ratify their collective agreement.

Newly qualified teachers whose studies have been financed by the Education Department will be required to teach at remote schools for up to four years in an attempt to help schools most in need.

EI affiliate, the Syndicat des enseignants du Congo (SYECO), has called off its strike on 8 October after a successful negotiation with the government.

The 3rd annual EI Round Table for Member Organisations in Central and Eastern Europe was recently held from 4-6 October in Riga, Latvia.