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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. Statements 2 November 2026

    Colombian workers are not alone

    CGU statement on the international solidarity mission to Colombia (Bogotá, 28-30 October 2026)

    The Council of Global Unions (CGU), representing more than 210 million workers worldwide has undertaken an international solidarity mission to Colombia. We came to Colombia because trade unions around the world are alarmed by reports of increasing threats against trade unionists and social movement leaders, attacks on democratic freedoms, efforts...

    Colombian workers are not alone
  2. Worlds of Education 29 October 2026

    Misogyny and an education system’s duty of care for students and for teachers

    Correna Haythorpe

    Misogyny among young people is no longer an issue that can be considered solely in terms of poor behaviour of some teenage boys who are stuck in dark pockets of the online world. For teachers, it is pervasive, growing rapidly, and the consequences are already being felt in schools across...

    Misogyny and an education system’s duty of care for students and for teachers
  3. News 28 October 2026

    New Oxfam report: The world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown and cashing in on the crisis

    Oxfam’s new report, Disaster Divide , exposes how the world's super-rich are fuelling the climate emergency through their outsized emissions, while shielding themselves from the consequences and, increasingly, profiting from the destruction. Meanwhile, millions of people struggle to recover from floods, fires, and rising food prices.

    New Oxfam report: The world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown and cashing in on the crisis
  4. Worlds of Education 27 October 2026

    Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens

    Wangari Kinoti

    Sixty years ago, a Special Intergovernmental Conference on the Status of Teachers recognised that teachers’ pay, working conditions, professional autonomy and public standing were inseparable from the quality of education provided to children, and explicitly identified teacher shortages as a problem requiring action. Why, sixty years later, are we confronting...

    Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens
  5. News 23 October 2026

    Southern European education unions strengthen regional action for quality public education

    Education unions from across Southern Europe have renewed their commitment to advancing the Go Public! Fund Education campaign, meeting in Rome, Italy, to strengthen regional cooperation and coordinate efforts to secure greater public investment in education and the teaching profession.

    Southern European education unions strengthen regional action for quality public education

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