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
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...
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
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.
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”.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
16 February 2026
Vanuatu: Teacher Union Embraces Global Call to Go Public and Fund Education
Advocating for increased and sustained public investment in education to strengthen the teaching profession and improve learning outcomes, the Vanuatu Teachers Union (VTU) has launched the Education International (EI) Go Public! Fund Education
campaign nationwide. It emphasized the need for the government to invest in teachers through fair remuneration, quality...
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
31 October 2025
Go Public! Fund Education successfully takes off in Pacific Islands
Education union leaders from the Pacific Islands came together to share experiences, challenges, and Go Public! Fund Education
campaign priorities in their respective countries.
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...
