Education

Myanmar: Children affected by Rakhine conflict miss a year of school

Inter-communal violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in June and October 2012 displaced an estimated 140,000 people. Many fled to temporary camps where they have been living without adequate shelter or sanitation facilities. Continued tensions between...

EI demands decent work and social dialogue for educators

EI Deputy General Secretary Haldis Holst, in a speech to the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on 13 June, urged the ILO to guarantee decent work and social dialogue for teachers worldwide. She highlighted that this would...

Brazil: EI calls for investigation into assassination of indigenous land protestor

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Students complete OSCE-supported teaching practice

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A student teacher on a pre-service placement with Roma children in Bitola in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 27 January 2010.

Child labour undermines quality education

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EI warns ILO conference of deprofessionalisation trend

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Antonia Wulff and Dominique Marlet at the ILO Conference Committee on the Application of Standards

ILO examines collective bargaining in the public services

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Honduran teacher unions handing their complaint to the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association.

Teacher trade unions mobilise for quality education

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