Public sector unions in South Africa have been in negotiation with the government to secure a living wage and increased housing allowances for workers.

Many teaching positions within German schools remain vacant just weeks before the start of a new school year. Research from Germany's largest education unions, the GEW and VBE, estimates that almost 45,000 posts are unfilled, with acute shortages in subjects such as mathematics and the sciences.

The US House of Representatives has voted to approve new legislation that will inject more than $10 billion in aid to states and school districts to save education jobs that were threatened by budget cuts.

More than 1,700 staff in UK schools were accused of misbehaviour by parents or pupils last year.

A survey carried out by the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) has discovered that in the 2008-09 school year each Canadian teacher paid out from their own pocket an average of $453 for essential classroom materials or class-related activities.

EI affiliate in Kenya, the Kenyan National Union of Teachers (KNUT), urged "the government to declare the shortage of teachers a national disaster," reported the national newspaper Daily Nation.

More than 9,000 delegates have gathered in New Orleans, USA, for the Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly of the National Education Association (NEA) - one of EI's largest affiliate members in America.

On 4 June 2010, the Committee on the Application of Standards of the International Labour Conference (ILC) unanimously adopted a Report by the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning teaching personnel (CEART).

Teachers have been declared the 'better part of society' at the 23rd session of the Council of Europe's Standing Conference of Education Ministers which took place in Ljubljana between 4 - 5 June, 2010.