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  1. Health and well-being 30 July 2024

    Educators' well-being in focus at EI’s 10th World Congress

    A top priority for Education International

    Teacher and education support personnel well-being is vital for quality education. Education International (EI) is dedicated to addressing issue, prominently featured at EI’s 10th World Congress taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 29 July to 2 August. The Congress highlighted the importance of educators' well-being and the urgent need...

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I-BEST: International Barometer of Education Staff

  1. Standards and working conditions

    International Barometer of the Health and Well-being of Education Staff 2023: Focus on early child education staff

    10 October 2023

    The Education and Solidarity Network and the Foundation for Public Health, in partnership with Education International and the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, have launched the 2nd edition of the International Barometer of the Health and Wellbeing of Education Personnel (I-BEST) in 2023.

    International Barometer of the Health and Well-being of Education Staff 2023: Focus on early child education staff See resources 2
  2. Standards and working conditions

    International Barometer of the Health and Well-being of Education Staff 2023

    10 October 2023

    The Education and Solidarity Network and the Foundation for Public Health, in partnership with Education International and the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, have launched the 2nd edition of the International Barometer of the Health and Wellbeing of Education Personnel (I-BEST) in 2023.

    International Barometer of the Health and Well-being of Education Staff 2023 See resources 28
  3. Standards and working conditions

    International Barometer of the Health and Well-being of Education Staff 2021

    16 November 2021

    The first edition of the International Barometer on Education Personnel’s Health and Well-being, based on a survey of 8,000 teachers in six countries on three continents, offers a unique insight into the experiences of teachers in 2021. By analysing issues related to their working conditions, their feelings about their profession...

    International Barometer of the Health and Well-being of Education Staff 2021 See resources 15

EI Publications

  1. Health and well-being

    Teacher job satisfaction: International evidence on the associations with teacher workload, school leadership, and student discipline

    Martin Henry, Nurullah Eryilmaz, Alec Kennedy, Rolf Strietholt, Stefan Johansson, Pontus Bäckström
    15 July 2025

    Education International and IEA (a collaboration of researchers, analysts, scholars and agencies) have produced a compass brief focussed on teacher job satisfaction. What is driving low job satisfaction? How do school leaders, teacher workload and student behaviour contribute to this? What do the numbers tell us about where we should...

    Teacher job satisfaction: International evidence on the associations with teacher workload, school leadership, and student discipline See resources 1
  2. Future of work in education

    The Global Status of Teachers 2024

    Dr. Ben Arnold, Dr. Mark Rahimi
    23 January 2025

    The Global Status of Teachers report provides a global and regional analysis of the status and conditions of the teaching profession by representing the views of teacher unions worldwide.

    The Global Status of Teachers 2024 See resources 1
  3. Standards and working conditions

    Teacher and Education Support Personnel Well-being - Vital for Education

    Policy Brief
    8 July 2024

    This Briefing outlines the importance of teacher and education support personnel (ESP) wellbeing to high quality education. It sets out a road map for education unions and their members on how to ensure that educational jurisdictions put in place practical strategies for enhancing the wellbeing of all teachers and ESP....

    Teacher and Education Support Personnel Well-being - Vital for Education See resources 1
  4. Standards and working conditions

    Teacher well-being: a global understanding

    8 July 2024

    Education International wishes to further its understanding of the current policy landscape of teacher well-being. To inform this understanding, Education International commissioned Education Support to undertake a small-scale research study to explore and summarise global understandings of teacher well-being. The work included highlighting global definitions of well-being, the identification of...

    Teacher well-being: a global understanding See resources 1

Resources from the Covid-19 pandemic

  1. Equity and inclusion 14 June 2021

    No one is safe until everyone is safe

    Take action for universal access to COVID-19 vaccines, medical products and technologies!

    With a few high-income countries taking over most of the global vaccine supply, the rest of the world is left fighting new waves of the COVID-19 pandemic without essential tools. In the meantime, new variants of the virus are threatening to send us all back to square one.

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  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

    Effective and Equitable Educational Recovery | 10 Principles

    Education International and the OECD
    28 April 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the frequent closure of school buildings in most countries in the world and has interrupted the school attendance of at least 1.2 billion students in 2020 and 2021. Although many education systems have been able to adapt in varying degrees, the pandemic has shown...

    Effective and Equitable Educational Recovery | 10 Principles See resources 1
  3. Trade union rights are human rights 14 December 2020

    Education International and UNESCO call for educators to be considered a priority group in COVID-19 vaccinations

    Today, on the 60th anniversary of the Convention that promotes the universal right to education, Education International and UNESCO published a joint message calling on governments and the international community to consider teachers and education support personnel as a priority group in COVID-19 vaccination efforts. The call came as some...

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  4. Equity and inclusion

    Auditing Educational Equity in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic

    A Guide for Education Unions
    3 December 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented school closures that have affected over 1.5 billion students worldwide. However, the impact of the pandemic has not been equal, with vulnerable and disadvantaged students disproportionately affected by the resulting global crisis in teaching and learning.

    Auditing Educational Equity in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic See resources 3
  5. Standards and working conditions

    Forward to School: Guidance, Considerations and Resources for and from Education Unions to Inform Decision-Making in Times of Covid-19

    30 July 2020

    Forward to School provides a wealth of resources to inform the response of education unions in this next stage of the Covid-19 education crisis. It features information, research and, most importantly, examples of union actions in more than 50 countries across all regions.

    Forward to School: Guidance, Considerations and Resources for and from Education Unions to Inform Decision-Making in Times of Covid-19 See resources 1
more: Resources from the Covid-19 pandemic

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