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Financing teachers and teaching in the post pandemic recovery

When: Friday, October 8, 2021 - 11:00 - Friday, October 8, 2021 - 12:30
Timezone:
Europe/Paris
Organizers:
  • UNESCO
  • International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030
  • ActionAid
  • Education International

To mark the global celebrations for World Teachers’ Day, ActionAid, UNESCO, the Teacher Task Force and Education International are collaborating to organize a 90-minute webinar, Financing teachers and teaching in the post pandemic recovery on the 8th October 2021 at 9:00-10:30 GMT to highlight:

  • The importance of safeguarding financing to education and investing in teachers and the education workforce
  • Strategies and measures governments can take to ensure adequate financial allocations are made to ensure enough teachers are recruited, deployed, remunerated and supported
  • Ways teachers themselves can play a more active role in the decision-making process at national/decentralized levels

The webinar will bring together civil society representatives teachers/teacher union members and  government representatives, to discuss and debate issues based on existing and emerging research evidence.

Speakers include representatives from:

  • Action Aid
  • Nigerian Teachers Union
  • Ministry officials from Burkina Faso, Malawi and Nepal
  • TaxEd Alliance
  • UNESCO
  • Education International

With closing remarks from UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education, Stefania Giannini.

Please register here.

Photo credit: © European Union, 2021 (photographer: Olympia de Maismont).

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