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As Artificial Intelligence continues to disrupt the education space at an alarming rate, educators and union members recently came together to discuss its impact on the classroom and the continuing importance of the teacher-student relationship.

The Education International (EI) Research Network (ResNet), which brings together trade unionists and researchers, explained that the global teacher shortage cannot be understood — or confronted — without addressing the gendered inequalities that shape education systems, the workplace, and the profession itself.

In June 2026, during the International Labour Organization (ILO) Conference, Education International (EI) formally submitted a complaint on behalf of the Magisterio Panameño Unido (MPU) to the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA).

Teachers in The Gambia are at the frontlines of the fight against gender-based violence (GBV), supported by international union development cooperation and a growing commitment to transform schools into safe, inclusive spaces.

A new global report from Education Cannot Wait (ECW) paints a stark picture of a world where crises are stripping millions of children of their right to education. As conflicts, climate shocks and displacement intensify, education systems are collapsing — and the most vulnerable are being left furthest behind.

The new report from ActionAid International, Education International, and partners exposes how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has continued to push low-income countries to prioritise debt repayments over public services, despite claiming to support better education outcomes.

Education unions from across the world will convene in Madrid on 29–30 June 2026 for the first in-person meeting of Education International’s AI and Technology Network, marking a decisive step to ensure that the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in education is shaped in the public interest—by educators, for learners.

Education International and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) have joined forces for the launch of Experiencing Democracy in the Classroom: Building Democratic Learning Environments to Promote Civic Learning , an open-access volume that provides teachers with tools and examples of how to create democratic learning...

The 2026 Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights has been awarded to Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and long-serving General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE).

Confronted with severe teacher shortages, Education International (EI) member organisations have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen collective action to defend educators’ wellbeing and fair working conditions, and to advocate for the sustainable public investment needed to secure quality education for every child across the Pacific. They also underscored what education...

Educators in Greenland and their union colleagues from around the world mobilized to defend Indigenous rights and democratic self-determination.

The transformative power and critical role of global union solidarity featured prominently at the 180th Annual General Meeting of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) which took place on 4 to 6 June in Dundee.

Education International and its members are part of a program that empowers teachers and mobilises communities against child labour. The approach which involves capacity building, union partnership, and community engagement is delivering outstanding results and effecting enduring change.

The Francophone Trade Union Committee for Education and Training (CSFEF) is stepping up its efforts in the fight against the commodification of education, calling for public investment and fact-based social dialogue that is central to decision-making.

Despite strong public opposition and strike action in schools across the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB) called by a united front of education unions, the FWB Parliament, meeting in a plenary session, voted in the early hours of 5 June to approve the government’s planned cuts in education spending.

The 48th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) concluded with a breakthrough on the critical agenda of exceptions and limitations to copyright for education and research. The Committee agreed to launch text-based negotiations on education, preservation, and persons with disabilities...

“Education is not an assembly line, a content delivery platform, or, under any circumstances, a transaction. Our students are not data, and our classrooms are not markets.” This was stated by José Olivera of Uruguay’s National Federation of Secondary Education Teachers (FENAPES) during his intervention before the International Labour Organization...

“Governments are failing to protect working people, and in many cases are actively undermining them,” states the 2026 Global Rights Index . This global report, published annually by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), surveys regions and countries’ workers’ rights violations, has seen a continuing trend of workers’ rights deteriorating...