January 24th is the International Day of Education. Education is a human right, a public good, and a public responsibility. Free quality public education systems that are fully funded and led by a strong, valued, and respected teaching profession are the single most effective way to ensure the right to education for every child everywhere.
This is why educators around the world have mobilised for the Go Public! Fund Education campaign. We are standing together for public education, for the future our students deserve, for the dignified pay and working conditions educators deserve.
Join us! Use the materials below to raise your voice and call on your government to Go Public and Fund Education!
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
29 September 2025
Ukraine: Education International supports draft State Budget for 2026 that delivers significant boost for education funding
The draft budget proposed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine provides for a substantial and sorely needed increase in funding for education in 2026. As Ukraine’s Parliament must adopt the budget, Education International (EI) and the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) expressed strong support for the proposal...
Go Public! campaign strengthens trade union action in Latin America
Education International’s Go Public! campaign has strengthened trade unions’ capacity for mobilisation in Latin America and contributed to political, organisational, and pedagogical transformation in the region.
Human-centred AI: EI's global conference charts the future of education
While tech companies race to embed Artificial Intelligence (AI) in schools and campuses worldwide, the voices of educators have been largely sidelined. Education International's conference, Shaping Our Future: Education Unions Leading for a Human-Centred AI, puts educators back at the centre. The 4-5 December Brussels conference will bring together union...
Education unions celebrate Democracy Day by mobilising and organising to defend it
Democracy is a core value of education unions around the world. On the International Day of Democracy, 15 September, education unions from Education International came together online to reaffirm their commitment to defending and advancing democracy, sharing insights into the challenges they are facing and strategising the way forward.
Education leaders call for urgent action to address global crisis in the teaching profession
World Summit on Teachers presents roadmap to address 50 global million teacher shortage and fully fund public education
SANTIAGO, CHILE – As ministers and education leaders prepare to convene for the World Summit on Teachers (WST) on 28-29 August 2025, the global teaching profession faces an unprecedented recruitment and retention crisis. The world needs 50 million more teachers by 2030 across early childhood, primary and secondary education, yet...
World Summit on Teachers: 50 million teachers are needed now. Education leaders call for action!
Santiago de Chile | 28-29 August 2025
From recommendations to action
18 months after the UN recommendations on the teaching profession, world leaders and Education International representatives gather in Santiago de Chile to confront an unprecedented crisis. Without immediate action on recruitment, retention, and genuine social dialogue, the right to education remains an empty promise.
