Today we will be listening to a conversation between Cassandra Hallet da Silva, secretary general of the Canadian federation of teachers, and Winnie Namata, communications officer from UNATU Uganda. Two women working for a trade union, shouldn-t be surprising giving the fact that, in almost every country of the world, the great majority of teachers are women, but the reality faced within the structures of many organisations is different.

How do teacher unions shape teacher professionalism and the professional identity of educators? Listen to our experts and learn more about what makes quality education.

Today we have a full studio at EI - researchers from all corners of the world joined us to discuss education issues here in Brussels.

Today we're on the phone with our affiliate ANDEN from Nicaragua, who carried out incredibly effective actions to get children out of work and into school, in a project with Education International. This podcast is in Spanish.

Podcast en español.

Globalising compassion -

Today we continue our series on child labour with a chat between Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi and our Deputy General Secretary Haldis Holst.

On the occasion of the international day against child labour we talked to our friends in Mali who explained what teachers are doing to get children out of work and into school.

In this podcast we will lean about child labour in Uganda and how teachers unions are working to get children out of work and into school.

As the global partnership for education (also known as GPE) is moving towards its replenishment, in this podcast we will be looking into how the financing of education through the GPE has materialised itself. We will learn about the current state of financing of education and about the resources that are available for this funding.

PISA – what should its aim be? Who should benefit from its analysis? What is the role of teachers in the whole process? How can they be involved in the interpretation of the results? All these questions are addressed by EI senior consultant John Bangs and Yuri Belfali, Head of Division at the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills.

It doesn't get more international than this: from Ghana to Portugal, we will learn about the situation of various education systems, the impact of privatisation and what it takes for quality education to become a reality.