[1] COPE is a sub-branch of Education International's (EI) Asia and Pacific regional division.
Australia National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU)[2] Australian Education Union (AEU) Cook Islands Cook Island Teachers' Institute (CITI) Fiji Fijian Teachers' Association (FTA) Fiji Teachers Union (FTU) Association of the University of South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) Kiribati Kiribati Nation Union of Teachers (KNUT) New Zealand New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) Independent Schools Education Association of New Zealand (ISEA) ASTE & AUS amalgamated to become Tertiary Education Union (TEU) effective 1 January 2009 Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Teachers' Association (PNGTA) Samoa Samoa National Teachers' Association (SNTA) Solomon Islands Solomon Island National Teachers' Association (SINTA) Tonga Friendly Islands Teachers' Association (FITA) Tuvalu Tuvalu Teachers' Association (TTA) Vanuatu Vanuatu Teachers' Union (VTU) Wallis and Futuna FORCE Ouvriere Enseignement COPE provides advice and assistance on professional, industrial, legal and human rights issues for teachers, support staff and their representative union affiliates in the region.
It also acts as a clearing house for information to both its affiliates and to other organisations across the Pacific and to Education International.
COPE hosts biennial conferences to address issues facing education in the South Pacific.
In August, 2008 the Roundtable and 18th Biennial Conference was held in Nadi, Fiji, together with UNESCO and UNICEF, on "Improving the Status of Teachers as per International Labour Organization (ILO)-UNESCO's 1966 Recommendation and promoting Children's Rights to Quality Education".