We bring together our member organisations to discuss and share experiences, good practices and ideas on responding to collective challenges. Together we are building the education unions of the future: mass participation organisations that reflect the diverse interests and identities of their members and offer educators a multitude of ways to engage and contribute.
This week’s announcement by the American president that he and his administration acknowledge that current high-stakes standardized testing does not work may be the first step to returning quality learning to classrooms.
Obama’s admission that high-stakes testing doesn’t work a positive step forward
Education International’s African committee is convening with a focus on the two major challenges that hamper quality education on the continent: lack of school security and the urgent need for funding.
Security and funding at the core of African regional committee
Education International has offered heartfelt condolences to its Turkish affiliate, the Education and Science Workers’ Union of Turkey, after eight of its activists were confirmed killed in bomb attacks that struck Ankara over the weekend.
Turkey: EI condemns horrific attack on peace and democracy
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize honouring the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for its role in helping build democracy following the country’s revolution includes five of Education International’s very own affiliates.
Education International’s Tunisian affiliates celebrate Nobel Peace Prize
Education unions from twelve Arab countries met on 7 and 8 October in Beirut to establish a new Arab organisation to promote education quality, the status of teachers and democratic development in their countries.
Arab teachers' unions establish new Arab Organization for Education
The Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine has officially moved in to its new offices, built thanks to Education International’s Solidarity Fund, to which education unions worldwide contributed.
Ukraine: International solidarity helps union build new HQ
A new research team is now taking up the coordination and production of materials around the privatisation of education, human rights and other poignant issues relevant to teachers around the world.
New EI Research team in Brussels
Technological innovations in the classroom need the active involvement of both pupils and well trained teachers to be a success factor for learning, according to the latest high-level report published on the subject.
Computers do not improve pupils’ results
More than fifteen hundred teachers took part in a colloquium on public education reform organized by Mexican teachers’ union SNTE in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,on 4 and 5 September, with thousands following the discussions on line.
SNTE mobilises its membership to improve education quality in Mexico
Education International has launched an urgent action appeal, calling on its members to show solidarity with Dominican teachers and their families after the tropical storm Erika badly struck the Caribbean island of Dominica.
Dominican teachers and their families in need of urgent support
Sometimes simple solutions go a long way in solving big challenges, which is why EI staff in Brussels are helping to provide much needed items to scores of refugees camped out in the city’s centre.
EI staff steps in to help refugees in Brussels
The global education community is now in the final phase of setting the Global Sustainable Development Goals and Education for All agendas – Education 2030. Civil society has been instrumental in securing an ambitious, rights-based framework for education post-2015.
Make your voice heard in the post-2015 indicator selection - deadline September 4th
Less than six weeks are left until the Global Goals for Sustainable Development are launched at the United Nations. To celebrate this, the World’s Largest Lesson will take place in schools around the world. To prepare, a toolkit has been launched.
The World's Largest Lesson on the home stretch
“Our collective efforts show considerable progress on advocacy, capacity building, research, communications, and solidarity…as there is not yet a ‘standardised test’for international organisations, you will have to grade us based on common sense.”
Progress, Power, Participation: Video Highlights of General Secretary Report
Education International is stronger than ever, but so are the challenges – that’s the perspective EI President Hopgood gave some 2,000 delegates in her keynote address to the 7th World Congress in Ottawa.
Hopgood internet highlights: EI is valued but battles remain
Education International and the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) have learned with shock and sadness of the passing of Kounka Damianova (66), who led the International Department of the Bulgarian Teachers’ Union (SEB) for many years. Ms Damianova died suddenly at SEB’s headquarters in Sofia on 4 August,...
Kounka Damianova
Los Angeles: "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. was named the world's top-earning actor on Tuesday by Forbes, taking first place on a list that featured leading men from Bollywood as well as Hollywood for the first time.
Robert Downey Jr. Ranked World's Top-Earning Actor by Forbes
The torch was passed on the last day of Education International’s Seventh World Congress as the new Executive Board was officially welcomed and delegates paid tribute to outgoing members.
Congress welcomes new EI Executive Board