Research

  1. 30 June 2025

    In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises

    Howard Stevenson Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo Melanie Bhend Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou

    Research

    The research examines recent trends in the higher education sector and how they align with the current provisions of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997) and the recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. It also analyses higher education unions' experience with...

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  2. 23 June 2025

    School Leadership in Africa: Policy and Practice

    Research

    This study, commissioned by Education International Africa and carried out by Dr Casmir Chanda, sheds light on key issues surrounding school leadership through a comprehensive analysis of education policies and the lived experiences of school principals' union leaders across the continent.

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  3. 28 April 2025

    Teacher compensation in crisis contexts: Problems & paradoxes for paying teachers in South Sudan

    Mading Peter Angong Sarah Etzel Whitney Hough Mary Mendenhall Kemigisha Richardson Tiffany Tryon Malok Mading Wol

    Research

    Teachers are essential to upholding the right to quality education for children in crisis and displacement contexts, yet they often experience delayed, irregular, or insufficient compensation, leading to demotivation, absenteeism, and destabilization of educational systems.

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  4. 24 January 2025

    The Global Status of Teachers 2024

    Dr. Ben Arnold Dr. Mark Rahimi

    Research

    The Global Status of Teachers report provides a global and regional analysis of the status and conditions of the teaching profession by representing the views of teacher unions worldwide.

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  5. 10 December 2024

    Unions leading the way to decolonise education

    Gabriela Bonilla

    Research

    This research on the decolonisation of education aims to promote further reflection among Education International (EI) member organisations on the role of unions, teachers, and policy in the decolonisation of education.

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  6. 8 November 2024

    Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment: Full Report of International Research Findings

    Carol Campbell Christopher DeLuca Danielle LaPointe-McEwan Maeva Ceau Nathan Rickey

    Research

    The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project facilitated professional learning and development to advance teachers’ leadership of educational improvement with a focus on increasing confidence in, understanding of, and use of student focused formative assessment practices for enhanced student learning. The dual focus on both teachers’ development and...

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  7. 8 July 2024

    Teacher well-being: a global understanding

    Research

    Education International wishes to further its understanding of the current policy landscape of teacher well-being. To inform this understanding, Education International commissioned Education Support to undertake a small-scale research study to explore and summarise global understandings of teacher well-being. The work included highlighting global definitions of well-being, the identification of...

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  8. 22 November 2023

    Fossil Fuel Subsidies: A Briefing for Education Unions

    Zeynep Clulow

    Research

    This policy brief explores the fossil fuels-education relationship by combining the most comprehensive recent data on fossil fuels from the IMF fossil fuel database with educational performance and potential confounding factors from the World Bank World Development Indicators databases, resulting in a dataset of 1651 observations after omitting country-years with...

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  9. 28 September 2023

    Access and Use of Teaching and Learning Materials from a Copyright Perspective in Kenya

    Catherine Nafuna Nandain Charles Nandain

    Research

    This report presents the findings of a study conducted in Kenya, focusing on the access and use of teaching, and learning materials from a copyright perspective. The study aimed to identify the teaching materials used in class, strategies to access them, teacher’s knowledge of copyright laws, copyright-related challenges that teachers...

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  10. 15 March 2023

    Education and copyright: Perspectives from the classroom

    Preliminary findings

    Research

    We know from WIPO’s and our own research that copyright legislation is inadequate for education today. It creates barriers to ensure the right to education as well as curtails teachers’ academic freedom to choose and adapt materials including for cross-border collaboration and exchange.

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