World Public Services Day: Teacher union watchdogs funnel tax dollars back into the classroom

01 juli 2014 | EI | Education International is launching its Resource Guide on Tax Justice to mark World Public Services Day and to support education unions in their efforts to achieve global tax justice. This online resource guide is designed to help Education...

Progress on reducing the number of children out-of-school has stalled

01 juli 2014 | UNICEF, UIS | Despite major progress over the past decade, sub-Saharan Africa is still home to more than half of all the out-of-school children of primary school-age in the world. Moreover, millions who are in school are learning little. A set of...

Record 28.5 billion US Dollars pledged for global education

28 juni 2014 | GPE | Developing countries and donors join to make historic commitments to fund basic education at Brussels summit. The Global Partnership for Education Replenishment Conference received new pledges of more than US$28.5 billion in additional funding for...

Norway: Government to double support for global education

24 juni 2014 | EI | “Education is key to reducing poverty.” That’s according to Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg in a statement on 16 June. “The Government therefore intends to double its development assistance to education in countries affected by extreme...

Public services top up the income of the poorest people by 76%

03 april 2014 | Oxfam | Countries can start tackling inequality today by triggering an “economic stimulus” directly into the pockets of those who need it most – by investing more in public services like health and education, says Oxfam. Public services like health and...