We bring together our member organisations to discuss and share experiences, good practices and ideas on responding to collective challenges. Together we are building the education unions of the future: mass participation organisations that reflect the diverse interests and identities of their members and offer educators a multitude of ways to engage and contribute.
Many education systems across Africa remain structured by colonial legacies: what is taught, the languages used in classrooms, and the approach to formal schooling. Education unions must lead the effort to decolonise minds, curricula, and education financing across the continent. This was the call issued during a webinar of union...
ComNet Africa: Unions leading to decolonise education
Many education systems across Africa remain structured by colonial legacies: what is taught, the languages used in classrooms, and the approach to formal schooling. Education unions must lead the effort to decolonise minds, curricula, and education financing across the continent. This was the call issued during a webinar of union...
ComNet Africa: Unions leading to decolonise education
Unions worldwide are supporting educators in Ukraine, as they struggle to organise, stand up for public education and defend workers’ rights. As the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth year, Education International’s development cooperation (DC) partners and union leaders continue to build solidarity.
Ukraine: From emergency solidarity to union power
At a time when education systems across Africa are confronted with major structural challenges – chronic underfunding, teacher shortages, unequal access, growing competition from the private sector – education unions have a vital role to play. A training session organised in Accra, Ghana, brought together several unions from the region...
For strong public education systems: unions learning from each other, sharing experiences, and building collective action
Education unions in many parts of the world face increasingly challenging conditions: sustained underfunding of public education, attacks on trade union rights, and growing pressures to privatise and commercialise education systems. In this context, the development cooperation work of Education International and its members goes beyond the technical and into...
Building union power through strategic cooperation in Africa
Strengthening women’s leadership is not only a requirement for equality but also a prerequisite for more democratic, representative, and influential trade unions. By placing women teachers at the heart of its trade union project, the FOSEF-CI (Federation of Education and Training Trade Unions - Côte d’Ivoire) is redefining the balance...
Côte d’Ivoire: FOSEF-CI works to strengthen women’s leadership
From Canada to The Gambia, from Denmark to Zanzibar, education unions are reshaping professional development as a collective, teacher-led project rooted in solidarity, dignity and local realities.
Union partnerships are redefining professional development worldwide
From grassroots initiatives to structured partnerships, international cooperation among teacher unions is reshaping the landscape of activism—empowering members and driving policy in ways that transcend borders.
Building bridges: Education unions build global solidarity from the ground up
Teachers from the SNTE (National Education Workers’ Union), affiliated to Education International, received international recognition for their leadership in educating generations of students committed to harmonious coexistence and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. The ceremony took place at the UNESCO head office in Mexico, in the framework of the peace...
Mexico: UNESCO celebrates teachers in recognition of their efforts to foster peace
Education International continues to stand with its Lebanese affiliates, not only in moments of crisis but in the long journey of union rebuilding and renewal. Throughout the year, EI member organisations from 16 countries responded generously to the Urgent Action Appeal (UAA) launched by EI in October 2024 to support...
Education International supports union renewal in Lebanon
On 17 December 2024, a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila, leaving a trail of destruction across the island of Efate. Entire communities were shaken to their core as most buildings, including a significant number of classrooms, collapsed or were severely damaged. For many schools, this disaster...
Vanuatu: Union Strengthening and Awareness-Raising on Life Protection Skills in the Context of Climate Change
This landmark research report by Education International Africa explores the systemic, socio-economic, and cultural challenges limiting young educators’ participation in Education Unions and leadership roles across the continent.
In a world where education systems are increasingly under threat from austerity measures and privatization, EI’s Go Public! campaign has emerged as a powerful force for change, as demonstrated during a recent EI Development Cooperation (DC) Café gathering union leaders and partners.
Ethiopia and Nepal: Go Public! campaign showing strong results with solidarity and strategic advocacy
During the major mobilisations staged over a period of three months by the teaching profession in Morocco, the SNE-CDT education union actively listened to workers’ demands, organised grassroots consultations, and built a shared trade union position. A national trade union renewal plan was also launched, setting out specific aims such...
Morocco: Sustained strike action turns into a foundational event, driving trade union renewal
Education union representatives and development cooperation (DC) partners explored successful initiatives from around the world, highlighting the importance of effective communication, and the integration of modern technology to grow and mobilize union membership and increase the union bargaining power. This was during the latest Education International (EI) DC Café on...
Innovative membership engagement: Crucial tool for education union growth
Recent developments in several countries have highlighted the precarious nature of relying on external funding when it comes to international trade union cooperation. Elections and political reorientation coming with them can dismantle decades of funding collaboration between unions and donors.
Education unions debate benefits and risks of external project funding
African education union leaders called for peace, increased investment in quality education and the elevation of the teaching profession throughout the continent. They also acknowledged the need for greater involvement of young educators in their unions. This was during the last Education International Africa Regional Committee (EIARC).
African education leaders call for enhanced investment in education and Africa's future
Teachers, union leaders, and legislators from eleven countries came together in Fortaleza, Brazil, for the Global Education Seminar, a two-day event held to coincide with the G20 Education Ministers’ Meeting. The event served as a platform to discuss strategies to strengthen public education amid a complex global landscape.
Brazil: Education leaders from around the world call for stronger public education systems