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ETUCE launches its new website. From now on you will be able to find information on the latest ETUCE activities and initiatives by its member organisations in English, French and Russian. The website also provides updates on education issues relevant to teacher unions in Europe and their affiliates as well...

Over 10,000 teachers in Indonesia are set to receive training in information and communications technology after an agreement between the Teachers’ Association of the Republic of Indonesia and various telecom companies.

According to the latest survey detailing teachers’ concerns, large class sizes, workloads, and worries of inadequate training to deal with the challenges of today’s classrooms were front and centre among issues affecting Australia’s educators.

On 1 October 2014 the ETUCE held the 4th Round Table Meeting in Vilnius to promote social dialogue in the education sector. The meeting was conducted at a very opportune and important time as the trade unions and the Ministry of Education and Science are currently in comprehensive negotiations about...

Together, Haiti’s President and Minister of National Education joined hundreds celebrating World Teachers’ Day in a ceremony organised by the Confédération Nationale des Educatrices et Educateurs d’Haïti (CNEH), a national affiliate of Education International.

Along with an activist dressed as a rooster, the symbol of reading, learning and education for some 500 years, representatives of Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö called for “No cuts to the education budget!"

This report shows the recommended annual instruction time in full-time compulsory education in public sector schools. The report covers 32 countries of the Eurydice network (reference year 2013-2014). National sheets are included.

Teachers’ training and qualifications have been at the heart of a seminar organised by the German education union GEW, one of the numerous culmination events around the globe of the Unite for Quality Education campaign.

On 22 September 2014, the EI initiative Unite for Quality Education Campaign reaches its peak in the European Region. On this special day, ETUCE is organising a Public Hearing on the Future of Quality Education, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels, to celebrate one year...

Education unions in Quebec, Canada have appealed to the province’s Minister of Education, Sport and Leisure to publicly declare the importance of the public college system amid calls to have it abolished.

Striking Norwegian teachers are set to receive a wave of professional support as thousands of colleagues around the country prepare to take their place on the picket lines.

EI invites interested French-language professionals from around the world to participate in the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)/UNESCO distance learning course on “Teacher management”, which will take place between 10 November 2014 and 30 January 2015.

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), two EI national affiliates, have given a guarded welcome to the appointment of David Hoare as Chair of Ofsted, the official institution for inspecting schools.

An EI delegation attended the 56th Ministerial Session of the Conférence des Ministres de l’Education des Etats et gouvernements membres de la Francophonie (CONFEMEN) held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, from 10-12 July, under the theme: “Inclusive education and quality education for all: challenges, priorities and perspectives for the post-2015 agenda”.

Delegates at the American Federation of Teachers’ (AFT) national convention have voted overwhelmingly to re-elect AFT President Randi Weingarten for a third term. Lorretta Johnson was also re-elected Secretary-Treasurer, and Mary Cathryn Ricker was chosen to succeed Executive Vice-President Francine Lawrence, who plans to retire this year.

Educators on the Indian Ocean island nation are turning to creativity and the arts as a way to better engage and provide greater opportunities for students with learning difficulties.

When nearly 9,000 educators get together in the middle of the summer from all over the United States, free of classroom discipline and lesson plan prep, you know it’s going to be a good party.

Early findings of a Europe-wide Cedefop study of the effect of vocational education and training (VET) on the dropout rate reveal that this effect is largely positive. In countries where vocational pathways account for a large share of education and training, rates of early school leaving are below the EU...