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The EI Pan-European Structure and the ETUCE invite member organisations to contribute actively to the Commission's consultation on "Schools for the 21st Century".

Three educators are recipients of this year's Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) Special Recognition Awards that honour the valuable contributions made by teacher leaders in promoting the teaching profession and, by extension, public education. CTF President Winston Carter presented the awards on 13 July at the CTF Annual General Meeting held...

After a week of massive demonstrations throughout the country, Peruvian teachers remain on strike. The government, however, failed to listen to the requests for a national debate on the Teacher Career Law, which was passed today without further discussion by the National Congress.

Teachers and their unions from all around the world will campaign together on October 5th, World Teachers’ Day, to call for Quality Teachers for Quality Education!

In June, the Monitor newspaper reported that some 2,000 teachers had turned down government job offers in Uganda. The article echoes the surprise of the Ministry of Education on the apparent rejection of these posts. EI affiliate the Ugandan National Teachers’ Union (UNATU) has since reacted to these misleading statements.

EI affiliate in Peru, SUTEP, launched an indefinite strike on 5 July to protest against a new legal framework for the teaching profession, currently being discussed by the National Congress.

EI affiliate in Peru, SUTEP, has called a 24-hour strike on 26 June to demand that the proposed new legal framework for the teaching profession be discussed in a national debate before being submitted to the Congress.

The Kenyan government has lifted a 10-year employment embargo and announced extra funding for education, though the measures fall short of what is required to ensure adequate allocation of teachers.

The International Labour Conference (ILC) Committee on the Application of Standards unanimously adopted the Report of the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART) at its session of 1 June 2007.

Nearly half of Polish schools took part in a two-hour strike on 29 May called by EI affiliate ZNP to support demands for a 20% pay rise for education personnel, increase of expenditure on education and the upholding of the right to early retirement until at least 2011 and the...

Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Up to one million South African public sector workers are set to go on strike today demanding higher pay. It will be one of the country’s largest strikes in more than a decade.

Teachers in public primary and secondary schools in Senegal are on a 72-hour strike from 30 May to 1 June.

At its 26th Annual Conference which took place in April, EI member organisation the Zimbabwe Teacher’s Association (ZIMTA) called on its government to address the severe political, social and economic problems that are leading to massive brain drain of professionals.

Thousands of teachers took to the streets on May 26 to protest against what they called the Government’s meagre salary offer to them.

EI held a School Leadership Meeting at the NASUWT Hillscourt Education Centre in Birmingham, England on 15 - 16 May 2007. The meeting, which was hosted by NASUWT, was attended by 30 participants from 13 different countries. EI was represented by Elie Jouen and Denis Sinyolo.

Teachers in Iran will be converging upon the Iranian Parliament today at one o'clock in the afternoon to demand for better pay and working conditions, and the release of all jailed colleagues. They are also calling for the withdrawal of the order for the termination of service recently issued to...

Once again, EI protested to the Iranian government over further arrests of teachers after strike actions have been announced for 15, 16 April.