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Teachers in Mexico City are asking teaching unions from around the world to sign a letter supporting their right to elect their own leaders Section IX of the Mexican teachers' union SNTE is calling on the government to allow them to exercise their right to elect their own leaders, now that the courts have ruled that the executive committee appointed by Esther Gordillo (who appointed herself President for life) is unlawful.

Teachers in Kenya are demanding that the government increase spending on education The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has given the government 2 weeks to enter talks on overdue allowances to cover housing, commuting and health as well as extra allowances for teachers working in the most difficult areas. These were all promised at the end of a dispute in 1997. They are also demanding increases for heads. senior teachers and special needs teachers and the employment of early years teachers. The union says that if Kenya is to have good guality education for all, the government needs to invest $4.78 billion.

Teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico mounted a peaceful demonstration against the president's visit to the town Police fired tear gas and the military live rounds at protesters from section 22 of the teachers' union SNTE - CNTE who were protesting against the visit of Felipe Calderon. Police  also  attacked the teachers' union building and deployed snipers on rooves. Up to 20 teachers have been injured.

Classrooms have remained shut for more than 10 million students as about 200,000 members of the Kenya National Union of Teachers stayed away.    The union says it wants 28,000 new teachers hired on a permanent basis to cope with a surge in students

More than 3,500 schools in England and Wales will be closed and some 2,600 partially closed on Thursday when two teaching unions stage strike action.

Peace Education has been introduced to the Ministry of Education in Sierra Leone

Teachers unions have joined calls for mass protests in Algeria on February 12th to demand regime change

How do you fix education in Africa, where students have far fewer opportunities than their counterparts in other parts of the world? There are two schools of thought on the subject: do you invest bottom up? Or top down? The statistics are hard to ignore.  Sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest-ranked region in the world on the United Nations' education development index. The U.N. education agency (UNESCO) says a quarter of all children in sub-Saharan Africa do not go to school, and account for 43 percent of the world's out-of-school children. Meantime, the African Union (AU) has said the continent will need to recruit more than 2 million new teachers by 2015, just three years from now. While the U.N. and the AU agree on the scope of the education challenges facing the continent, they are from two separate schools of thought on how to remedy the situation.

Ontario shows us we should support our teachers, not shame them The Canadian province improved its education system by being supportive rather than dismissive of state schools

The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has resolved to boycott classes at any school where teachers are harassed or beaten up.

Union boss David Osiany said despite setting a target to employ 28,000 teachers by 2012, the government decided not to allocate money in this year's estimates. "It is obvious the government has overlooked the current teachers deficit that is now taking its toll on the quality of education and we cannot just sit and watch as education standards are compromised," Osiany said.

Teachers in the Fukishama region of Japan have joined other trade unionists in protests against the continuing nuclear emergency The teachers who are members of the Fukushima Prefecture Teachers Union are fighting to hold the government and the power company TEPCO responsible and accountable for the nuclear disaster in Japan which is cantaminating food, causing thousands of workers to lose their jobs and their livelihoods and not least means that many thousands of children are attending schools with radiation levels much higher than the previously accepted safety standards.

EI's French affiliates, SE-UNSA and SNUIPP, have condemned a government plan to ask teachers to test children as young as five on their behaviour and learning abilities. The government is seeking to classify pupils into one of the three categories: nothing to report, risk, and high risk. Children's evaluation would be based on four skills: behaviour at school, language, mobility, and phonology (awareness of individual sounds). According to the Education Ministry, this evaluation will be an 'identification tool' for pre-school students who 'show signs that they pose a risk to learning.' It is supposed to 'identify each student's needs in preparation for primary school.'