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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. 1 December 2025

    Communications Toolkit: Shaping Our Future. Education Unions Leading for a Human-Centred AI

    4-5 December 2025 | Brussels, Belgium

    Education International's conference, Shaping our future: Education unions leading for a human-centred AI, brings together union leaders, educators and experts from across the globe to exchange strategies, develop collective responses and advance a human-centred, rights-based approach to AI in education and research.

    Communications Toolkit: Shaping Our Future. Education Unions Leading for a Human-Centred AI
  2. Worlds of Education 27 November 2025

    Climate education for sustainable futures: A cross-country study of India and Philippines

    Ruchira Das, Ranjana Das

    Climate change is the ‘biggest modern threat that humans have ever faced’ (Eckstein et al. 2021). An apparently minor change in global temperatures, largely catapulted by human-industrial activities such as the acts of deforestation, burning fossil fuels and exploitation of natural resources, results in cataclysmic weather conditions, loss of biodiversity,...

    Climate education for sustainable futures: A cross-country study of India and Philippines
  3. Worlds of Education 26 November 2025

    Teaching students with Special Education Needs: Takeaways from TALIS 2024

    Heewoon Bae

    Classrooms are becoming more diverse, and more students around the world have identified special education needs (SEN). But it is relatively common for schools to be affected by a shortage of teachers with competences to teach students with SEN. Across the OECD, one in three teachers works in a school...

    Teaching students with Special Education Needs: Takeaways from TALIS 2024
  4. News 25 November 2025

    Mexico: UNESCO celebrates teachers in recognition of their efforts to foster peace

    Teachers from the SNTE (National Education Workers’ Union), affiliated to Education International, received international recognition for their leadership in educating generations of students committed to harmonious coexistence and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. The ceremony took place at the UNESCO head office in Mexico, in the framework of the peace...

    Mexico: UNESCO celebrates teachers in recognition of their efforts to foster peace
  5. Worlds of Education 25 November 2025

    When it clicks, you can’t unsee it! When sexual harassment and racism intersect – ‘Misogynoir’

    Jennifer Moses

    For more than twenty-five years I have stood at the intersection of education and trade unionism. I have fought for social justice, equality and trade union rights and organised teachers across the UK as well as across continents. I am a trade unionist because I believe that workplaces can –...

    When it clicks, you can’t unsee it! When sexual harassment and racism intersect – ‘Misogynoir’
  6. News 25 November 2025

    Education union leaders drive change, demand action, and inspire hope for Africa

    Education leaders from the EI Africa Regional Committee (EIARC) came together to celebrate hard-won progress, tackle persistent challenges, and renew their collective resolve to champion public education. With a clear focus on urging governments to prioritize and fully fund public education, participants reaffirmed their commitment to securing quality learning for...

    Education union leaders drive change, demand action, and inspire hope for Africa

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