Education

Teaching about the EU: "44% of Europeans don't understand how the EU works"

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Damian Drăghici

Slump hurts refugee schools in Kurdistan region of Iraq

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Children on their way to school at Kawergosk Refugee Camp, Erbil Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I).

UK: Unions welcome dropping of baseline assessment by Government

UK Government has been forced to recognise that the three tests schools were permitted to use do not produce comparable results and, therefore, cannot be used to form valid and reliable baselines of progress. That’s according to Chris Keates, General...

Experts warn against wave of for-profit education

Academics and union leaders are looking behind the false claims about the commercialisation of education, revealing its devastating effects on schools, society and democracy.

Successful implementation of education policy relies on teacher involvement

The EI Conference of affiliates in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries, organised by Education International (EI), brought more than 150 international delegates from OECD member countries for a two-day...

Bahrain: Teacher leader freed after five years in prison

The international community has closely monitored Abu Dheeb’s case, and decried the blatant disregard for human and trade union rights by Bahraini authorities in the case. Education International has worked with a large coalition of affiliates and...

UK transform £200 million to the life chances of vulnerable young people

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USA: Major court victory for unions

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