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The future of education has a new roadmap to the future as ministers from around the world adopted the Framework for Action in Paris, with hopes placed on its bold take on financing and inclusion.

On the eve of high-level talks in Paris aimed at adopting a framework to implement the Education 2030 Agenda, an Education International teacher delegation gathered in advance to prepare for the big meeting.

World leaders and civil society organisations are heading to Paris this week to adopt a new global framework for education in the hopes of accomplishing the unfinished business of education for all before 2030.

The 8.7 Alliance was convened by the ILO in New York during the UN General Assembly with the expressed view of establishing an alliance to tackle child labour, forced labour and slavery.

In a set of roundtable sessions sponsored by the Global Business Coalition for Education and the Asia Society’s Center for Global Education, participants discussed ways to increase awareness and adoption of global citizenship education.

Education International joined other leading education stakeholders in New York City to discuss and learn how each plans to contribute to and rally around both the new Sustainable Development education goal and greater agenda.

A new study shows that 33 countries in the world will not have enough teachers to provide every child with a primary education by 2030, if current trends continue.

Celebration was in the air at the Global Education First Initiative in New York, where leaders proclaimed victory with the new education goal and EI President Susan Hopgood made clear that teachers are the key.

Education International's President Susan Hopgood takes centre stage at the UN's SDG Summit on behalf of the labour movement. Read her remarks here in full.

Colleagues, in just a few hours I will address the UN for the opening of the Sustainable Development Goals Summit in New York. This is set to be the UN General Assembly that brings together most world leaders in one place in history – and it should be.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development being adopted by Heads of State and Government this week in New York contains 17 goals set out to transform the world by simultaneously addressing social, environmental and economic challenges.

With the adoption of the new UN Sustainable Development Goals fast approaching, delegates at EI's Seventh World Congress have the chance to find out how how to introduce the most important topics to the classroom.

An Addis side event, which included UNESCO and the governments of Ethiopia, Norway and the Republic of Korea, focused on investing in education gave Education International the perfect opportunity to argue for free public education.

Education International joins heads of state and government, along with major stakeholders in development, in Addis Ababa to agree on financing for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals to be launched this September.

Education International joins global leaders in Oslo to bridge the global Education for All vision and commitments adopted at the World Education Forum with the necessary financing, priorities and political will.

As Public Service Day is observed around the world the importance of public education is front and centre as the United Nations works to finalise the Post-2015 development agenda.

Education International, along with nearly 110 international and national organisations, has commented on a speech made by the World Bank president praising the results of a multinational chain of low-fee profit-making private primary schools.