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.
Since the financial crisis broke out in 2008, EI has been promoting education and training as a strategy for economic growth through our campaign Hands Up for Education. We work together with our members, other Global Unions and civil society organisations to bring our position to world leaders. Slowly, governments...
Hands up for education! : EI strategy for post crisis recovery
The ‘Quality Educators For All’ project has been developed by EI in partnership with Oxfam Netherlands Novib. Commonly referred to as the ‘Quality-Ed Project’, its purpose is to help public authorities meet their responsibility of providing good quality public education.
Quality Educators Project: Teachers improve skills through development co-operation
Many teachers and students all over the world will be feverishly watching matches and cheering for their favourite teams during the Football World Cup. The game embodies many values that educators promote, such as fair play and respect for other cultures. The World Cup will also be a time when...
No more lip service to global justice
Education unions around the world remain committed to helping colleagues in Haiti after the devastating earthquake that hit the country on 12 January, 2010.
Hope for Haiti: EI support continues in the aftermath of the earthquake
EI’s flagship magazine is full of articles from around the world of education, including a review of activities that our members organised to celebrate Global Action Week and the 1GOAL Campaign, ahead of the Football World Cup.
Latest edition of EI’s Worlds of Education now online
EI members and emergency workers in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are struggling to get aid to communities cut off by Tropical Storm Agatha which battered the region over the weekend.
EI members devastated by tropical storm in Central America
On behalf of the General Secretary, we wish to notify your organization of the pending EI Africa Regional Conference, scheduled from the 29th November to the 4th December 2010, in Brazzaville, the capital city of the Republic of Congo.
Notice for the 7th EI Africa Regional Conference
EI congratulates Dr. Olli Luukkainen who has been elected the new President of OAJ, the Finnish Teachers’ Union.
EI Welcomes New Leader of Finnish Education Union
The EI/ETUCE Bureau held a special meeting on 5th May to consider proposals submitted by member organisations for amendments to the revised draft By-laws which were presented to the Committee/Board at its last meeting in March. The Bureau decided to incorporate some of these amendments into the text of the...
Special European Regional Committee Meeting called to consider new draft By-Laws
EI took an active part in a TUAC delegation which met on Tuesday in Rome with the Italian Finance Minister, Giulio Tremonti, who will chair the OECD Ministerial Council later this month.
Taking the case for education funding to Finance Ministers
Teacher unions from East Africa are taking part in a joint workshop on negotiations from 13-15 Apr in Nairobi, Kenya, with special reference to economic and financial issues.
East African teacher unions share experiences in negotiation
The Executive Board of EI affiliate CNEH is working on an Action Plan, after getting feedback from the Federations, and the preparations for the International Trade Unions Confederation (ITUC) Summit in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 8-10 April.
Haiti: unions develop Action Plan for recovery of the education system
In its statement today at the United Nations International Donors' Conference towards a New Future for Haiti, held in New York, the United States, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) reiterated that "decent work must be central to the reconstruction efforts of Haiti and to shape a new development model...
Unions call for decent work while rebuilding Haiti
Hope for Haiti: The new edition of EI’s flagship magazine focuses on the solidarity shown by teachers worldwide after the devastating January earthquake.
Latest "Worlds of Education" now online
Environmental education is a passion for Ouedraogo Ousséni. A teacher at Municipal School C in Kaya in the north-central region of Burkina Faso, he has been developing a plant nursery project with his Year 6 pupils since 2000.
Seeds of hope: Growing a network of green schools in Burkina Faso
On the afternoon of 12th January 2010, Jean Lavaud, General Secretary of the Confédération Nationale des Educateurs d’Haïti, was visiting his union colleague Magalie Georges at her Port-au-Prince school, utterly unaware that in a matter of moments their city and their lives would be changed forever.
Hope for Haïti: Education at the heart of recovery
Conceived of as an open space for dialogue within global civil society, the World Social Forum was first held in 2001 in Porto Alegre, acting as a counterbalance to the annual World Economic Forum held in Davos. Under the slogan "A different world is possible," participants in the WSF propose...
World Social Forum: Learning to unlearn the lessons of neoliberalism