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.
A new research team is now taking up the coordination and production of materials around the privatisation of education, human rights and other poignant issues relevant to teachers around the world.
New EI Research team in Brussels
Technological innovations in the classroom need the active involvement of both pupils and well trained teachers to be a success factor for learning, according to the latest high-level report published on the subject.
Computers do not improve pupils’ results
More than fifteen hundred teachers took part in a colloquium on public education reform organized by Mexican teachers’ union SNTE in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,on 4 and 5 September, with thousands following the discussions on line.
SNTE mobilises its membership to improve education quality in Mexico
Education International has launched an urgent action appeal, calling on its members to show solidarity with Dominican teachers and their families after the tropical storm Erika badly struck the Caribbean island of Dominica.
Dominican teachers and their families in need of urgent support
Sometimes simple solutions go a long way in solving big challenges, which is why EI staff in Brussels are helping to provide much needed items to scores of refugees camped out in the city’s centre.
EI staff steps in to help refugees in Brussels
The global education community is now in the final phase of setting the Global Sustainable Development Goals and Education for All agendas – Education 2030. Civil society has been instrumental in securing an ambitious, rights-based framework for education post-2015.
Make your voice heard in the post-2015 indicator selection - deadline September 4th
Less than six weeks are left until the Global Goals for Sustainable Development are launched at the United Nations. To celebrate this, the World’s Largest Lesson will take place in schools around the world. To prepare, a toolkit has been launched.
The World's Largest Lesson on the home stretch
“Our collective efforts show considerable progress on advocacy, capacity building, research, communications, and solidarity…as there is not yet a ‘standardised test’for international organisations, you will have to grade us based on common sense.”
Progress, Power, Participation: Video Highlights of General Secretary Report
Education International is stronger than ever, but so are the challenges – that’s the perspective EI President Hopgood gave some 2,000 delegates in her keynote address to the 7th World Congress in Ottawa.
Hopgood internet highlights: EI is valued but battles remain
Education International and the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) have learned with shock and sadness of the passing of Kounka Damianova (66), who led the International Department of the Bulgarian Teachers’ Union (SEB) for many years. Ms Damianova died suddenly at SEB’s headquarters in Sofia on 4 August,...
Kounka Damianova
Los Angeles: "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. was named the world's top-earning actor on Tuesday by Forbes, taking first place on a list that featured leading men from Bollywood as well as Hollywood for the first time.
Robert Downey Jr. Ranked World's Top-Earning Actor by Forbes
The torch was passed on the last day of Education International’s Seventh World Congress as the new Executive Board was officially welcomed and delegates paid tribute to outgoing members.
Congress welcomes new EI Executive Board
Commercialisation and privatisation in and of education will be at the heart of Education International’s agenda for the next four years as the organisation concluded a successful Seventh World Congress in Ottawa, Canada.
Congress ends on a high note
Sungho Byun, President of the Korean Teachers and Education, brought an urgent resolution before Congress in response to the 60 thousand teachers from KTU who lost their union after the government decertified them earlier this year.
Plight of teachers in Korea, Colombia, Nepal, and Iran raised in urgent resolutions
Several resolutions were passed at Education International’s 7th World Congress on the promotion of democracy, sustainable development, fair trade, basic social service and health and safety through solidarity and cooperation among member organisations, the international trade union movement and civil society.
Call for values and end to violence
“The situation of trade unions rights in Arab countries remains of grave concern,” said Patrick Roach, of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers who addressed Congress on Resolution 2.10 Resolution: Issues in the Arab Countries.
Trade union concerns in Arab countries raised
In almost 60 percent of countries, workers – including teachers - are excluded from fundamental labour rights, said Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) when addressing EI’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, on 26 July.
ITUC solidarity with teachers
Education support personnel (ESP) were celebrated in an Education International (EI) video presented to EI’s 7th World Congress on 25 July. The animated video was entitled, ‘It takes the entire education workforce to educate the whole child’.
It takes the entire education workforce to educate the whole child