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Through our 375 member organisations, we represent more than 33 million teachers and education support personnel in 180 countries and territories.

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Informed and empowered by teachers and education support personnel everywhere, we develop tools and strategies that enable us to work across all sectors of education and all regions of the world to effect change and create a better future for our students. Click here to see how we work and find out more about our priorities below.

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Latest Updates

  1. Worlds of Education 7 October 2025

    Novice teachers under pressure: Insights from TALIS 2024

    Heewoon Bae

    Reports of teacher shortages in many countries around the world raise questions about teachers’ well-being and job satisfaction. Which teachers are thriving? Which ones are struggling? What might make teachers more likely to leave the profession? What could support teachers to stay? Data from the fourth cycle of the Teaching...

    Novice teachers under pressure: Insights from TALIS 2024
  2. News 7 October 2025

    New TALIS data: Report confirms need to act on global teacher shortage and working conditions

    New data reveals a stark reality: One in five teachers under 30 years of age plan to leave the profession within the next five years. In some education systems, this figure rises to half of young teachers. This finding from the 2024 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), launched today,...

    New TALIS data: Report confirms need to act on global teacher shortage and working conditions
  3. News 6 October 2025

    Mongolia: Thousands of teachers and education support personnel rally to demand salary increase and adequate investment in the education

    In Ulaanbaatar’s main square, thousands of teachers and education support personnel staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the Parliament building. Their core demand is to raise the basic salary of teachers to 3.5 million tugrik and allocate adequate funding for the education sector. Currently, teachers earn between 1.2 –...

    Mongolia: Thousands of teachers and education support personnel rally to demand salary increase and adequate investment in the education
  4. News 3 October 2025

    Education International condemns escalating repression of Iranian teacher union activists

    Education International (EI) has issued a strong condemnation of the Iranian government’s intensifying crackdown on teacher union activists, particularly members of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA), EI’s affiliate in Iran.

    Education International condemns escalating repression of Iranian teacher union activists
  5. News 3 October 2025

    World Teachers’ Day: African Union hosts global celebration in show of support for education and teachers

    For the first time ever, the official event marking World Teachers’ Day is not held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris but is hosted by the African Union in the framework of the Pan-African Conference on Teacher Education (PACTED) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 3rd.

    World Teachers’ Day: African Union hosts global celebration in show of support for education and teachers
  6. Worlds of Education 30 September 2025

    Education voices | Promoting academic freedom in the Philippines

    Raymond D. Basilio

    This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .

    Education voices | Promoting academic freedom in the Philippines

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