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Education International

We are the voice of teachers and education workers around the world.

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.

  1. Quality education for all

  2. The profession

  3. Rights and democracy

  4. Building union power

Latest Updates

  1. News 21 November 2024

    Trade union communicators join forces for the future of public education in a social Europe

    Education union communicators across Europe have placed the fight for public education at the heart of their common mission. Spearheaded by Education International (EI) and its European region, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), the Communicators’ Network will work together to strengthen advocacy for the future of public...

    Trade union communicators join forces for the future of public education in a social Europe
  2. News 21 November 2024

    COP29: Education unions demand urgent action for climate education and a just transition

    The Education International Executive Board issued a strong call for urgent and decisive climate action in a statement to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29). Stressing that widespread school disruptions caused by the climate crisis put students’ right to education and teachers’ labour rights at risk,...

    COP29: Education unions demand urgent action for climate education and a just transition
  3. Statements 21 November 2024

    Climate justice, climate education, and resilient education systems for all without delay

    Education International Statement to COP 29

    Education International is the voice and force of education and part of the international trade union movement. Education International represents over 33 million teachers and education support personnel through over 375 education unions.

    Climate justice, climate education, and resilient education systems for all without delay
  4. Worlds of Education 20 November 2024

    Organizing for a new treaty on free public education

    Bede Sheppard

    World Children’s Day is celebrated annually on 20 November. The date is auspicious for children’s rights as it coincides with the date on which the United Nations adopted both the Declaration on the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

    Organizing for a new treaty on free public education
  5. Worlds of Education 16 November 2024

    Standing up for quality public education on International Students' Day

    Ruth Thornton, Shamna Abdul Kareem, Dilara Keven, Marina Mata, Mairead Howley

    International Students’ Day, celebrated on 17th November, has long been associated with student activism against human rights’ violations . This year we, a group of students and recent graduates, feel compelled to draw attention to the perilous position of the right to education worldwide – with public education underfunded and...

    Standing up for quality public education on International Students' Day
  6. News 14 November 2024

    Morocco: Education unionists celebrate progress and continue to mobilise for the Go Public! Fund Education campaign

    Education International member organisation the Fédération Nationale de l'Enseignement - Union Marocaine du Travail (FNE-UMT) continues its mobilisation for the Go Public! Fund Education campaign in Morocco. Having secured significant wins through social dialogue, the union has resolved to place the Go Public! campaign and the United Nations recommendations on...

    Morocco: Education unionists celebrate progress and continue to mobilise for the Go Public! Fund Education campaign

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