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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 2 September 2025

    Education in Kurdistan: Between challenges and hopes

    Between curriculum gaps and aging infrastructure, Kurdistan's educational system is at a turning point. Teachers and union leaders are calling for urgent reforms to ensure a better future for students.

    Education in Kurdistan: Between challenges and hopes
  3. News 29 August 2025

    Historic Santiago Consensus puts teachers at heart of education transformation

    World Summit on Teachers delivers comprehensive framework demanding sustainable investment in teaching profession

    Ministers, teacher unions and education leaders meeting at the World Summit on Teachers in Chile have adopted the Santiago Consensus, a comprehensive framework that commits governments to address the global shortage of 50 million teachers through concrete policy action.

    Historic Santiago Consensus puts teachers at heart of education transformation
  4. News 21 August 2025

    Education leaders call for urgent action to address global crisis in the teaching profession

    World Summit on Teachers presents roadmap to address 50 global million teacher shortage and fully fund public education

    SANTIAGO, CHILE – As ministers and education leaders prepare to convene for the World Summit on Teachers (WST) on 28-29 August 2025, the global teaching profession faces an unprecedented recruitment and retention crisis. The world needs 50 million more teachers by 2030 across early childhood, primary and secondary education, yet...

    Education leaders call for urgent action to address global crisis in the teaching profession
  5. News 21 August 2025

    World Summit on Teachers: 50 million teachers are needed now. Education leaders call for action!

    Santiago de Chile | 28-29 August 2025

    📺 Watch the Summit live! From recommendations to action 18 months after the UN recommendations on the teaching profession, world leaders and Education International representatives gather in Santiago de Chile to confront an unprecedented crisis. Without immediate action on recruitment, retention, and genuine social dialogue, the right to education remains...

    World Summit on Teachers: 50 million teachers are needed now. Education leaders call for action!
  6. News 21 August 2025

    Communications toolkit for the World Summit on Teachers

    The World Summit on Teachers is an unprecedented opportunity for the world to move from words to action on education. You can follow it live here. As ministers and education leaders prepare to convene for the World Summit on Teachers (WST) on 28-29 August, the global teaching profession faces an...

    Communications toolkit for the World Summit on Teachers

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