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EI delegates at Brussels march

Protesters gather outside of the Education World Forum in London.

Seven of 20 Syrian refugees who attend school stand for a photograph in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, 20 May 2016. The other 13 are being deprived of a basic right, missing the chance for a better life and of breaking a cycle of injustice.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May will use her first regional Cabinet meeting on Monday (23 January) to launch a modern Industrial Strategy aimed at improving living standards, increasing the nation’s productivity and ensuring growth is shared across the whole UK.

The Global Response Network meeting, hosted by Education International (EI), is unfolding in the International Trade Union House in Brussels from January 19-20. More than 50 participants from all over the world are analysing the current trends in the privatisation of education, a global phenomenon that pervades and hollows out education systems, posing the “biggest threat to the right to education”, according to project director Angelo Gavrielatos, who chaired the sessions.

On 20 January, Skills Minister Robert Halfon has announced that the Department for Education (DfE) is setting the public sector a target of recruiting 200,000 more apprentices by 2020.

With the full support of their unions, primary and secondary school teachers from across the country have come together in protest to urge the government to secure quality education for every student in Tunisia.