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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

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  3. Rights and democracy

  4. Building union power

Latest Updates

  1. Worlds of Education 9 August 2025

    Education Voices: The trade union fight for Indigenous rights in Quebec

    Isabelle Tremblay Chevalier

    The education trade union movement supports Indigenous Peoples and works to promote their rights in education all around the world. To mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, celebrated every year on 9 August (the date of the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous...

    Education Voices: The trade union fight for Indigenous rights in Quebec
  2. News 8 August 2025

    Education as a driving force for self-determination, equity, and the reclamation of knowledge systems

    International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

    Marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (9 August), President Mugwena Maluleke reaffirmed Education International’s commitment to Indigenous Peoples’ right to free, quality, public education that is culturally relevant.

    Education as a driving force for self-determination, equity, and the reclamation of knowledge systems
  3. News 6 August 2025

    Uruguay: a victory for justice and solidarity

    After more than four difficult years, during which Education International supported its affiliate FENAPES (National Federation of Secondary School Teachers), a significant victory has been achieved for teachers in Uruguay. This marks the end of a long struggle against political and trade union persecution.

    Uruguay: a victory for justice and solidarity
  4. News 1 August 2025

    Education International invites applications for the post of Regional Coordinator

    Full-time, based in EI Africa Regional Office in Accra, Ghana

    About Education International Education International (EI) is the world’s largest Global Union Federation bringing together organisations of teachers and other education employees from across the world. Through our 383 member unions and organisations, we represent more than 33 million teachers and education support personnel in 180 countries and territories in...

    Education International invites applications for the post of Regional Coordinator
  5. Worlds of Education 31 July 2025

    Education voices | Rising against the drive to commercialise higher education in Fiji

    Rosalia Fatiaki

    This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .

    Education voices | Rising against the drive to commercialise higher education in Fiji
  6. News 29 July 2025

    Strength in unity: How trade unions are standing up to the anti-LGBTI+ movement globally

    Solidarity matters and ensures rights are respected. This is the experience of unionists who came together to discuss “how trade unions are responding to the anti-LGBTI agenda of the far right across the world.” Organised on July 14th by the International Anti-Fascist Trade Unions Network and the Council of Global...

    Strength in unity: How trade unions are standing up to the anti-LGBTI+ movement globally

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