What do we mean when we talk about teachers and accountability? How can you measure it in a fair way? How does it impact quality education and quality teaching?

These and other topics are featured in this week's podcast with our research coordinator Martin Henry and Tore Sorensen.

David Edwards from EI talks to Dutch teacher and author Jelmer Evers about how to create a world-wide network of teachers for teachers. What are the challenges? How could it help teachers be better professionals and be more empowered? Don't miss this latest episode of our podcast series.

Andy Hargreaves, the Thomas More Brennan Chair in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, talks to EI about education reform in the USA, privatisation and how policy makers are influenced by their own experience with the education system.

This week we are talking to our colleagues from Kenya to find out what the situation of the education sector is like in the country. Do teachers have the resources they need? What is the matter with all the private schools that are emerging? What could be done so that students learn more and better? Stay tuned!

Together with Education International’s Antonia Wulff, Jane Porter, from the New Zealand Educational Institute - Te Riu Roa discusses challenges for the education support personnel to see their contribution to quality education for all acknowledged.

For more information: https://www.ei-ie.org/en/detail/14819/new-zealand-a-voice-for-the-%e2%80%9csilent-army%e2%80%9d-of-education-support-personnel

In this podcast Steve Snider talks to Sean Slade about the whole child approach to education, and how health and education are two sides of the same coin.

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Why is a woman's place in ... her union? How do unions make a difference when it comes to women's economic status and gender equality? Will the world achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?

These and other subjects are addressed by Dianne Woloschuk Executive Board member of EI and chair of EI's Committee on the Status of Women.

In this edition, EI’s Nicolás Richards speaks with Sonia Alesso, General Secretary of CTERA, Argentina, Roberto Franklin de Leao, International relations secretary of CNTE Brazil, and Luis Grubert, former President of FECODE Colombia. Together they discuss the gripping political and trade union situation in the region, and the fights they are leading on behalf of their unions.

Together with Education International’s Dennis Sinyolo, Prosper Lubuva, from the Tanzania Teachers’ Unions discusses challenges in early childhood education, and how to increase early childhood educators’ professionalism through the development of a competence profile.

Avec Claude Carroué de l'Internationale de l'Éducation, Daniel Lafrenière de la Centrale des syndicats du Québec examine la situation des personnel de soutien à l'éducation et leur importance pour l'éducation des élèves.