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.
Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers in the UK, died suddenly on 5 April 2008. He was 56. The leaders and members of Education International join with teachers across the UK and indeed around the world in mourning the loss of this outstanding teacher trade unionist,...
Teachers mourn sudden death of NUT leader Steve Sinnott
"In unity is strength and in division is weakness."
African regional committee meeting hears calls for united union actions
In 1945, the Persatuan Guru Republik Indonesia (PGRI - "Teachers' Association of the Republic of Indonesia") was established as a teachers' trade union.
The Success Story of the EI-PGRI Consortium Project
At their meeting in Brussels last week, the officers of Education International voted to appoint Charlie Lennon to the post of Deputy General Secretary. He has been serving as EI’s Chief Coordinator for Administration and for Europe for the past four years, and will take up his new post effective...
EI appoints new Deputy General Secretary
A critical shortage of properly trained and qualified teachers is threatening the achievement of Education for All and Millennium Development Goals by 2015, according to a new study by Education International.
Africa: EFA threatened by teacher shortage
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