The Educator is the only French-speaking Swiss magazine that provides regular information on school news in French-speaking cantons and on educational innovations.

Most preschool and elementary school teachers and, to a lesser extent, high school teachers are subscribers, as are school authorities and parents. In total, about 8,000 subscribers regularly read the Educator who appears 11 times a year (+ a special issue), at the rate of one number per month (except in July)

The Educator was created in 1864. It is published by the Syndicat des Enseignants Romands (SER), an organization that brings together the cantonal associations of teachers: