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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 19 February 2026

    EI Welcomes the Marrakech Global Framework for Action on Child Labour and Calls for Quality Education, Social Dialogue, and Peace

    A small Education International (EI) delegation joined governments, employers, other unionists and civil society representatives at the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Marrakech on 11-13 February 2026, where the newly adopted Marrakech Global Framework for Action reaffirmed what educators worldwide know: universal access to free,...

    EI Welcomes the Marrakech Global Framework for Action on Child Labour and Calls for Quality Education, Social Dialogue, and Peace
  2. News 19 February 2026

    Africa ECE Network: Unions sharpen strategies to develop and strengthen early childhood education

    Improving the professional status of early childhood education (ECE) personnel is central to improving both access and quality. Education unions across Africa are strengthening their collective advocacy to secure quality ECE, as well as recognition and decent conditions for workers in this sector.

    Africa ECE Network: Unions sharpen strategies to develop and strengthen early childhood education
  3. News 19 February 2026

    Iraq: Union takes stock of obstacles in the Kurdistan region

    To tackle issues facing educators and the education system, the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU) organised a seminar entitled “The Obstacles Facing the Educational Process in the Kurdistan Region”.

    Iraq: Union takes stock of obstacles in the Kurdistan region
  6. News 16 February 2026

    Vanuatu: Teacher Union Embraces Global Call to Go Public and Fund Education

    Advocating for increased and sustained public investment in education to strengthen the teaching profession and improve learning outcomes, the Vanuatu Teachers Union (VTU) has launched the Education International (EI) Go Public! Fund Education campaign nationwide. It emphasized the need for the government to invest in teachers through fair remuneration, quality...

    Vanuatu: Teacher Union Embraces Global Call to Go Public and Fund Education

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