This podcast features an interview with the head of the German teachers union GEW, Marilis Tepe, who explains the challenges faced by the German education system in the context of the arrival of refugee children into the country.

Today is human rights day, and this year we are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights. Such a special day!

Today’s podcast features Kerry Kennedy, head of Robert F Kennedy Human Rights, who talked to our colleague Andrew King about the importance of human rights in education.

We had the chance to talk to Peter Mlimahadala, head of the disability department of the Tanzania Teachers Union (TTU). Peter is a visually impaired person, and talked to us about how teachers with disabilities are supporting each other in order to be able to teach and to deliver quality education to their students. How they overcome stigma, fight discrimination, and thrive in their working life in the classroom.

Thousands of children have arrived in Germany fleeing from war and extreme poverty since 2016. How are schools, teachers and communities working to integrate them and make sure they integrate into the school system? We talk to our German affiliate GEW in Bremerhaven.

Did you ever think about teachers as leaders? Here at EI that’s definitely the way we see them.

During our Unite for Quality Education and Leadership Conference in Rotterdam last May we invited two experts to discuss this issue. Andy Hargreaves, from the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, and Sean Slade, Director of Outreach at ASCD.

Today we're celebrating World Teachers Day with a special feature on academic freedom by our Deputy General Secretary David Edwards. Let us know your comments in the section below.

A few days ago, the World Bank released its first ever flagship report on education, called “learning to Realise education’s promise”. Now, if that doesn’t sound promising! Our policy officer Jennifer Ulrick and Action Aid’s David Archer unpack the most important bits of the report and look into the pros and cons of the Banks take on learning, teaching, education and the future of our school systems.

We are proud to present you with a podcast featuring Global Teacher Prize Award Winner Maggie MacDonnell. She was selected from among 20,000 nominees worldwide at the Varkey Foundation’s Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai last year.

What does it take to become a good teacher? What does the teacher curriculum have to include and what can teacher students expect when they embark on a teaching career? Today we will be looking at these issues with Beatrice Avalos, from the University of Santiago de Chile. She joined Education International for the Conference Unite for quality education and leadership in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in May earlier this year.

Can a teacher use a printed copy of the 'Mona Lisa' in her classroom without being sued? What does copyright mean when applied to education material? Does an article written by a scholar at a public university belong to the journal it gets published in?

David Robinson from CAUT explains.