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.
Teachers, parents and more than a thousand children from a small fishing town in southern Sri Lanka celebrated the opening of their new public school on 20 February.
Sri Lanka: EI and Oxfam Novib open doors to learning
As part of the post-tsunami reconstruction and rehabilitation work undertaken by EI in cooperation with NOVIB (OXFAM Netherlands), a leadership course for principals was held in late 2007 in Aceh, Indonesia.
Leadership course organised for principals in new schools in Aceh
As part of the Global Union Research Network, EI strongly supports the international masters programmes on labour studies. They offer an excellent opportunity for EI member organisations to strengthen their capacities to face the challenges of globalisation.
Masters Programmes for Trade Unionists now Open for Application
Distinguished educator and teacher trade unionist Willard McGuire passed away on 2 February at his home in Minnesota. He was 79. McGuire served as president of the National Education Association, the largest education union in the United States, from 1979 to 1983. A devoted children's advocate, he used the power...
In memoriam: Willard McGuire
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) is grieving the sudden death of Don Pasquallie, the union's Deputy General Secretary. Pasquallie died in a car accident in Napier, in the Western Cape, early in the morning of 27 January. Four other passengers in the same car died with him, including...
South African teachers mourn loss
For 15 years now, teachers around the world have been united in solidarity under Education International’s flag. On 26 January 1993, approximately 1,000 delegates from theWorld Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession(WCOTP) and theInternational Federation of Free Teachers Unions(IFFTU) gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, to merge these two rival teacher...
EI’s 15th Anniversary
Education International has launched a website to showcase the many contributions that education trade unions are making to development cooperation projects around the world.
New EI website showcases educators' contributions to development cooperation projects worldwide
Education International is taking a lead role in drafting a new blueprint to reassert labour rights around the world.
International labour leaders gather at first Global Summit on Organizing
In 2006, EI in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), a German political foundation, launched a project on Strengthening the African Teachers Trade Union Movement.
One year later: Strengthening Teachers' trade unions in Africa
Social inequities between men and women remain striking in Latin America. There are few issues that Latin American education workers need to discuss as urgently as gender equity.
Equality with a gender perspective in Latin America
The 31st EI Executive Board meeting was held from 19-20 November 2007 in Brussels. The preliminary report of the meeting is now available and being circulated to all EI member organisations.
Preliminary report of the 31st Executive Board Meeting now available
Education is crucial in developing democracy and citizenship in all societies, nowhere more so than in countries where governments do not fully respect the most basic human and trade union rights. Quality education for all, free from any kind of discrimination, can help immensely in building democracy in non-democratic, less-democratic...
Middle East: Time to build free democratic teacher organisations
A conference held in Montenegro from 27 – 30 September 2007 marked the start of a new project on Strengthening the Education Trade Unions in the countries that were part of former Yugoslavia.
Launch of a new project in former Yugoslavia
The EI Executive Board met in Brussels from 19-20 November to discuss and formulate working plans on the mandates it has received from the EI World Congress held earlier in July in Berlin.
Education International to strengthen its assistance to education workers in the Middle East and Central Asia
Education International activists join fellow trade unionists across many countries in mourning the loss of Heribert Maier, one of the outstanding international trade union leaders of his generation. Heribert was also a member of EI’s Committee of Experts on Membership since 1996.
In memoriam: Heribert Maier
EI sends its condolences to the family and friends of the victims of the Peruvian earthquake, which took place just off the coast of the country on 15 August.
Peru: EI sends its condolences to Peruvian colleagues
About 2,000 teachers and education workers from 160 countries around the world concluded a successful 5th World Congress today.
Education International 5th World Congress renews teachers' commitment to quality education and social justice
The 5th World Congress of Education International entered its final day on 26th July and in the intensive discussions that took place in the five days of the congress, educators around the world voted overwhelmingly for stronger solidarity in their common struggle for social justice.
Teachers of the world voted for stronger solidarity and social justice at EI's 5th World Congress in Berlin