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.
Early next month representatives from a wide variety of global health, education and UN organizations will meet to discuss issues of integrating disciplines such as health and social sustainability into schools as a way to leverage the strengths of programs in each separately to create a stronger and systemic whole.
Education-Health Alignment Provides Opportunity
Last week Education International had the opportunity to experience first-hand the devastation inflicted on Nepal after two major earthquakes rocked the country to its core, leaving communities in ruin and lives forever changed.
Nepali teachers need support now more than ever
Even after two major earthquakes brought the country’s schools to an abrupt close, Nepal’s education unions are standing together to ensure both their ranks and their students get the support they need.
For Nepali educators, solidarity begins at home
Hundreds of teachers and union delegates from 19 countries gathered in Santiago de Chile to discuss the most poignant issues surrounding education in the Latin American region and to develop a policy strategy for the coming four years.
Latin America unites for quality education
The European region of Education International (EI) is demanding that Kosovo’s public authorities fully implement the collective agreement that was signed a year ago.
Kosovo: union’s collective bargaining efforts backed by European-wide support
As the details of destruction in the wake of Nepal’s biggest earthquake in decades become clearer by the day, the country’s education sector is uniting to deal with its own casualties and damaged schools.
Earthquake inflicts heavy toll on Nepal’s education sector
Education International has sent out an urgent action appeal to all its member organisations, urging them to show solidarity and support for Nepalese teachers and their families.
Nepal: global educators’ community in solidarity after earthquake
The World’s Largest Lesson Plan is an international project of Education International and its global partners which invites teachers to popularise the Sustainable Development Goals of the coming decade.
15 days left to draw the world’s largest lesson plan
When the votes are cast for this week’s parliamentary elections, teachers will be hard to miss on the ballot, as they make up 10 percent of the 2,000 candidates running for seats.
Finland: Teachers take center stage in upcoming parliamentary elections
The 44th Education International’s Executive Board meeting has appointed Patrick Roach from the UK and Ryosuke Kato from Japan to help run the organisation’s work as Vice-Presidents for Europe and Asia-Pacific respectively, until the 7th World Congress in July.
Changes in EI global leadership in the run up to the 7th World Congress
Education International has offered its sincere condolences to the families of those lost in yesterday’s tragic plane crash, which took the lives of 150 people, including 16 students from the Joseph-König-Gymnasium in Haltern, Germany.
Students and teachers mourned after plane crashes in French Alps
Diverse congress business, including policy papers, resolutions and awardees, are high on the agenda of the 44th Education International Executive Board meeting, with just four months to go before the organisation’s key political event.
Executive Board engaged in final preparations for World Congress
The defence of quality public education and teachers’ rights are at the centre of discussions between Education International and the Mexican teachers’ union SNTE, the largest in Latin America, in view of SNTE’s application for membership with EI.
High-level meeting highlights common priorities of Mexican union and Education International