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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

  2. The profession

  3. Rights and democracy

  4. Building union power

Latest Updates

  1. News 18 August 2026

    Namibia: Education is a national priority, but challenges must be addressed

    Education unions reaffirmed that quality public education begins with quality funding during the Education International (EI) Southern Africa Sub-Regional Workshop on the Go Public! Fund Education campaign, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from July 23rd-24th, 2026.

    Namibia: Education is a national priority, but challenges must be addressed
  2. News 18 August 2026

    Malawi: Unions put education funding and improving working conditions on the national agenda

    Education unions strongly reaffirmed that quality public education begins with quality funding during the Education International (EI) Southern Africa Sub-Regional Workshop on the Go Public! Fund Education campaign, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from July 23rd-24th, 2026.

    Malawi: Unions put education funding and improving working conditions on the national agenda
  3. Worlds of Education 14 August 2026

    From Afghanistan to the world: Solidarity is hope

    Teacher from Afghanistan

    I am 44 years old and I hold a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. I teach at a high school in Kabul, and I have been working as a teacher for 20 years.

    From Afghanistan to the world: Solidarity is hope
  4. News 14 August 2026

    EI stands with the people and education communities of Colombia in the wake of a devastating earthquake

    Education International and its regional office for Latin America expressed their solidarity with the people and education communities of Colombia affected by the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on Monday, August 10. With the epicenter in the Chocó province, the quake was felt across most of the western part...

    EI stands with the people and education communities of Colombia in the wake of a devastating earthquake
  5. News 14 August 2026

    Costa Rica: Education unions file ILO complaint over restrictions on collective bargaining in the education sector

    Costa Rica’s two largest education unions and EI affiliates, the Sindicato de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Educación Costarricense (SEC) and the Asociación Nacional de Educadores y Educadoras (ANDE), have lodged a complaint with the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Committee on Freedom of Association, alleging that government policies and legislation...

    Costa Rica: Education unions file ILO complaint over restrictions on collective bargaining in the education sector

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