Key principles to guide new developments of the right to education
Delphine Dorsi
Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
The modern world is in a constant process of flux and evolution, shaped and reshaped by technology, globalisation, climate change, and multiple crises. In this context, the right to education is also... Read more
International students exchange and discuss strategies for action on equality in higher education
Yeliz Inci, Fee Wittenbecher, and Larissa Rosales Lopez
Thursday, 10 August, 2023
On 24 April 2023, the Right to Education Initiative (RTE) and the Global Student Forum (GSF) brought together student activists from four different continents, namely: Africa, Latin America, Oceania... Read more
Segregation, private school bubbles and dwindling financial support for state schooling: privatisation in the Arabic region
Eleanor Rosenbach and Hoda Awwad
Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
On Wednesday 28 April, RTE co-hosted a webinar in Arabic with the Arab Campaign for Education for All, as part of the wider programme of events in this year’s Global Action Week for Education. Hosted... Read more
Rubble and detritus litters site of former school
Commercialisation of Education in Mauritania
Océane Blavot - @OBlavot
Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
The case of the sale of public schools in Mauritania to private entrepreneurs and the associated privatisation of education, which civil society has been documenting and exposing since 2018, took a... Read more
How much does quality education per student cost in public schools in Brazil?
Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education
Monday, 10 September, 2018
Under the theme “How much is quality public education in Brazil” the Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education hosted an event to launch the Brazilian Edition of 2018 Global Action Week earlier... Read more
GEM report, UNESCO, education, right to education
Initial reflections on ‘Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments’
David Archer - @DavidArcherAA
Tuesday, 24 October, 2017
The new Global Education Monitoring Report is ground-breaking in placing accountability at the centre of its attention. As the report notes, the concept of accountability was shockingly absent from... Read more
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Increasing legal literacy on the right to basic education in South Africa
Faranaaz Veriava - @SECTION27news
Tuesday, 14 February, 2017
On the 15 February 2017, a partnership of civil society organisations that have been involved in rights-based struggles for access to a quality basic education will launch a Basic Education Rights... Read more
Separate and Unequal: School Funding in ‘Post-Racial’ America
Katherine Rose
Tuesday, 12 January, 2016
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a public school funding system based primarily on local property tax revenues does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause nor does it... Read more
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#TextbooksMatter 3: The Supreme Court of Appeal Rules That #TextbooksMatter
Basic Education For All - @BEFA_SA
Thursday, 3 December, 2015
On Tuesday 2 December 2015 a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal delivered a beautiful, globally significant judgment. In essence it said that the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) failure... Read more
#TextbooksMatter 2: On Textbooks and the Standard of Perfection
Kate Paterson - @BEFA_SA
Thursday, 19 November, 2015
On 24 November 2015 the Department of Basic Education (“DBE”) will argue before the Supreme Court of Appeal that delivery of textbooks to each learner in South Africa for each of their subjects... Read more

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