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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

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  3. Rights and democracy

  4. Building union power

Latest Updates

  1. News 1 August 2025

    Education International invites applications for the post of Regional Coordinator

    Full-time, based in EI Africa Regional Office in Accra, Ghana

    About Education International Education International (EI) is the world’s largest Global Union Federation bringing together organisations of teachers and other education employees from across the world. Through our 383 member unions and organisations, we represent more than 33 million teachers and education support personnel in 180 countries and territories in...

    Education International invites applications for the post of Regional Coordinator
  2. Worlds of Education 31 July 2025

    Education voices | Rising against the drive to commercialise higher education in Fiji

    Rosalia Fatiaki

    This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .

    Education voices | Rising against the drive to commercialise higher education in Fiji
  3. News 29 July 2025

    Strength in unity: How trade unions are standing up to the anti-LGBTI+ movement globally

    Solidarity matters and ensures rights are respected. This is the experience of unionists who came together to discuss “how trade unions are responding to the anti-LGBTI agenda of the far right across the world.” Organised on July 14th by the International Anti-Fascist Trade Unions Network and the Council of Global...

    Strength in unity: How trade unions are standing up to the anti-LGBTI+ movement globally
  4. News 25 July 2025

    Malaysia: NUTP joins Go Public! Fund Education campaign and calls on government to urgently address the shortage of 10,000 teachers

    The National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) issued a statement calling on the Malaysian government to tackle the nation’s growing teacher shortage without delay. NUTP President Mr Aminuddin Awang warned that Malaysia currently faces a shortfall of approximately 10,000 teachers. “This shortage directly undermines every child’s right to access...

    Malaysia: NUTP joins Go Public! Fund Education campaign and calls on government to urgently address the shortage of 10,000 teachers
  5. Worlds of Education 24 July 2025

    Education voices | A blueprint for a peaceful, democratic, and inclusive Syria

    Nesrin Reshk

    Worlds of Education: Nesrin, it is a pleasure to sit down with you for this interview on your first visit to the Education International head office in Brussels. Please introduce yourself to our readers. Thank you very much for your work and the warm welcome. Thanks to EI, I have...

    Education voices | A blueprint for a peaceful, democratic, and inclusive Syria
  6. News 23 July 2025

    United States: Union-powered National Academy for AI Instruction aims to put teachers in the driver’s seat on technology in the classroom

    Founded by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and its affiliate the United Federation of Teachers in partnership with Microsoft, Open AI, and Anthropic, the National Academy for AI Instruction will provide access to free training and curriculum on artificial intelligence (AI) for all 1.8 million members of the AFT.

    United States: Union-powered National Academy for AI Instruction aims to put teachers in the driver’s seat on technology in the classroom

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