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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 3 October 2025

    Education International condemns escalating repression of Iranian teacher union activists

    Education International (EI) has issued a strong condemnation of the Iranian government’s intensifying crackdown on teacher union activists, particularly members of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA), EI’s affiliate in Iran.

    Education International condemns escalating repression of Iranian teacher union activists
  2. News 3 October 2025

    World Teachers’ Day: African Union hosts global celebration in show of support for education and teachers

    For the first time ever, the official event marking World Teachers’ Day is not held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris but is hosted by the African Union in the framework of the Pan-African Conference on Teacher Education (PACTED) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 3rd.

    World Teachers’ Day: African Union hosts global celebration in show of support for education and teachers
  3. Worlds of Education 30 September 2025

    Education voices | Promoting academic freedom in the Philippines

    Raymond D. Basilio

    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 | Promoting academic freedom in the Philippines
  4. Worlds of Education 29 September 2025

    Education voices | Collective union action in defence of collegial governance

    Sinéad Kennedy

    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 | Collective union action in defence of collegial governance
  5. News 29 September 2025

    Ukraine: Education International supports draft State Budget for 2026 that delivers significant boost for education funding

    The draft budget proposed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine provides for a substantial and sorely needed increase in funding for education in 2026. As Ukraine’s Parliament must adopt the budget, Education International (EI) and the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) expressed strong support for the proposal...

    Ukraine: Education International supports draft State Budget for 2026 that delivers significant boost for education funding
  6. News 26 September 2025

    South-Asian education unions push for improved health, well-being, and gender equality curricula

    Over 160 participants including representatives of teacher unions, governments, civil society, youth, UN agencies, and academics from South Asia and Southeast Asia gathered to share lessons, explore innovative programs, and interventions to discuss how education systems can support teachers to deliver gender-responsive, socially responsible, and stigma-free curricula, including Comprehensive Sexuality...

    South-Asian education unions push for improved health, well-being, and gender equality curricula

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