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Education International

We are the voice of teachers and education workers around the world.

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

  2. The profession

  3. Rights and democracy

  4. Building union power

Latest Updates

  1. News 28 October 2026

    New Oxfam report: The world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown and cashing in on the crisis

    Oxfam’s new report, Disaster Divide , exposes how the world's super-rich are fuelling the climate emergency through their outsized emissions, while shielding themselves from the consequences and, increasingly, profiting from the destruction. Meanwhile, millions of people struggle to recover from floods, fires, and rising food prices.

    New Oxfam report: The world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown and cashing in on the crisis
  2. Worlds of Education 27 October 2026

    Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens

    Wangari Kinoti

    Sixty years ago, a Special Intergovernmental Conference on the Status of Teachers recognised that teachers’ pay, working conditions, professional autonomy and public standing were inseparable from the quality of education provided to children, and explicitly identified teacher shortages as a problem requiring action. Why, sixty years later, are we confronting...

    Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens
  3. News 23 October 2026

    Southern European education unions strengthen regional action for quality public education

    Education unions from across Southern Europe have renewed their commitment to advancing the Go Public! Fund Education campaign, meeting in Rome, Italy, to strengthen regional cooperation and coordinate efforts to secure greater public investment in education and the teaching profession.

    Southern European education unions strengthen regional action for quality public education
  5. News 20 October 2026

    Bulgaria: Teachers’ unions unite behind call to fund public education and strengthen the teaching profession

    Education union leaders from across Southeast Europe gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria, for a three-day strategic forum under Education International’s (EI) Go Public! Fund Education campaign. The meeting focused on one of the most pressing challenges facing education systems worldwide: ensuring sustainable investment in public education and rebuilding the attractiveness of...

    Bulgaria: Teachers’ unions unite behind call to fund public education and strengthen the teaching profession

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