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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 23 February 2026

    Call for proposals: Toolkit for educators and unionists to promote inclusive education and end stigma and discrimination against persons affected by leprosy

    Background Education International (EI) is the Global Union Federation that brings together organisations of teachers and other education employees from across the world. Through our 383 member organisations, we represent more than 32 million teachers and education support personnel in 178 countries and territories.

    Call for proposals: Toolkit for educators and unionists to promote inclusive education and end stigma and discrimination against persons affected by leprosy
  2. Worlds of Education 23 February 2026

    Supporting neurodiverse educators and learners: why inclusion must start with the workforce

    Imran Mir

    “When we design education for only one type of mind, we fail all of them.” Across the world, education systems are starting to become more diverse. However, they are not necessarily more inclusive. As a neurodivergent educator and researcher, I have had first-hand experience of how much potential is lost...

    Supporting neurodiverse educators and learners: why inclusion must start with the workforce
  3. News 19 February 2026

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

    Education International (EI) 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, compulsory, and quality...

    EI Welcomes the Marrakech Global Framework for Action on Child Labour and Calls for Quality Education, Social Dialogue, and Peace
  4. 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
  5. 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

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