The International Day of Education, January 24, is a moment to reaffirm our shared commitment to fully funded public education and to the educators who make quality inclusive education possible. As we celebrate the third anniversary of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign, this toolkit brings together powerful quotes from Education International leaders—voices that inspire action.
Go Public! Fund Education is an urgent call for governments to invest in public education, a fundamental human right and public good, and to invest more in teachers, the single most important factor in achieving quality education.
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📅 Today we celebrate the International #EducationDay and honour educators who inspire our students to create a more just future!
🎉 We must #GoPublic and #FundEducation to make it happen!
📅 On the International Day of Education, we celebrate another year since the launch of our Go Public! Fund Education campaign. Around the world, teachers and support personnel are organizing and winning increased salaries, better working conditions, and more funding for public education. We salute you 💥
Portugal: Union takes Go Public! Fund Education to every corner of the country
Through a nationwide caravan spanning more than 2,500 kilometres, Portugal's education union Federação Nacional de Professores (FENPROF) brought Education International's Go Public! Fund Education
campaign directly to schools and communities, mobilising thousands of teachers and citizens around a common message: “If we want quality education for all, we must invest...
Standing with Teachers: Education International and affiliates’ global call to defend and elevate the profession on World Teachers’ Day
From Lebanon to Eswatini, from Singapore to Canada, educators and their unions marked 5 October with a shared call: invest in teachers, strengthen the profession, and protect the right to education.
Trade union rights are human rights
5 October 2026
South Korean teachers call for solidarity as they mobilise for rights and public education
On 9 October 2026, the three largest education unions in South Korea will mobilise for a joint mass rally in defence of teachers' rights and public education in front of the National Assembly, in Seoul. The Korean Federation of Teachers' Associations (KFTA), the Korean Federation of Teachers' Unions (KFTU), and...
