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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...

Education International (EI) will bring a diverse delegation of 17 representatives to the114th International Labour Conference (ILC), taking place from 1–12 June 2026 in Geneva. Reflecting EI’s global reach, the delegation includes members from all regions of the world and is led by EI General Secretary David Edwards, who is...

On the occasion of Kurdish Language Day, the Union of Teachers in North and East Syria (UTNES), an affiliate of Education International (EI), has renewed its call for the official recognition of the Kurdish language in Syria, stressing that mother-tongue education is a fundamental human right and a cornerstone of...

Despite the prolonged political crisis, endemic violence, and growing economic insecurity , education unions in Haiti are continuing their campaign to defend public education and teachers’ rights. Meeting within the framework of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign, trade union leaders present a clear picture of the situation and reiterate...

Around 25,000 teachers marched in Lisbon on 16 May in a major national demonstration organised by Education International member organisation FENPROF. Education professionals from across the country came together to deliver a powerful message: “We are teachers. We shape the future. We demand recognition NOW!”

This year’s World Education Support Personnel (ESP) Day, May 16th, is an opportunity to celebrate, thank, and organise alongside ESP. Education International (EI) and its member organisations are focusing on gender justice in 2026. This reflects a structural reality across education systems worldwide: education support roles are highly feminised, systematically...

During the First Conference of the Education Trade Union Confederation of the Community of Lusophone Countries (CPLP-SE), held in Lobito, Angola, from 4 to 8 May, trade unions from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe reaffirmed their commitment to defending education and the urgent...

As authoritarian policies, censorship, and anti-gender campaigns intensify worldwide, education unions are reaffirming a long-standing truth: there can be no democracy without equality, dignity, and inclusive public education. This means education unions standing together against the global backlash on LGBTI+ rights.