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Trade unions in Belgium have responded positively to the announcement of the Pact for Excellence in Education by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, one of Belgium’s three federal communities. However, the unions have also set out conditions for their support.

Trade unions in Belgium have responded positively to the announcement of the Pact for Excellence in Education by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, one of Belgium’s three federal communities. However, the unions have also set out conditions for their support.

With only 12 months left to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000, the New Year comes with a wide range of challenges and opportunities for global education.

The 44th issue of Education International’s on-line magazine, Worlds of Education, features articles by prominent academics highlighting the crucial role of teachers in the international education policy arena.

While in Brussels earlier today, European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker announced a heavyweight plan to kick-start growth in the European Union, educators assembled in Vienna urged Commission officials present there to ensure that the education sector would especially benefit from these investments.

Local and global concerns about and commitments to education were presented to the Education Minister of Senegal by Francophone education unions affiliated to Education International (EI).

Quality education, teachers’ training, and teachers’ living and working conditions were all debated at the 7th National Congress of the Educators and Scientists’ Free Trade Union of Georgia (ESFTUG), an affiliate of Education International (EI).

With a united voice, trade unions across various sectors are condemning new regulations that may lead to decreasing teacher salaries, job cuts throughout education, and school closures across Ukraine.

On World Teachers’ Day, Education International celebrated the raffle of its first world-wide photo action. The awards have gone out to Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ghana.

The worlds of education and monarchy came together today as the UNESCO-Hamdan Prize was awarded to four organisations, including Education International, for their work and commitment to teachers.

The worlds of education and monarchy came together today as the UNESCO-Hamdan Prize was awarded to four organisations, including Education International, for their work and commitment to teachers.

For its 20th anniversary, World Teachers Day centres its attention on improving the working and living conditions of teachers today to pave the way to a better tomorrow for education.

Dawn is breaking. Teachers around the world begin their day... While each of the respective regions these teachers live in has its distinctive features, its diversity of landscape, culture and history, a common desire unites them all: to impart knowledge to those they teach, to help them reach their full...

A role reversal took place last week when six teachers from around the world had the chance to visit local classrooms to see how schools in the Big Apple differ from their own.

The voices of 30 million teachers are hard to ignore, especially after they called upon the UN yesterday in New York to make sure quality education remains a top priority.

Dear Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, we are bringing to you the voices of the teachers and education workers of the world.

When the United Nations convenes its annual General Assembly, long-winded speeches and policy talk usually own the day, which wasn't the case when global education leaders and students were treated to a programme organised by Education International that combined practice and policy and saw teachers take the same stage as...

Teacher unions in Fiji have come together in a three-day tour to mark the end of the Unite for Quality Education (Unite) campaign.