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Policy brief
Education versus austerity. Why public sector wage bill constraints undermine teachers
This brief provides a synthesis of the key findings of the report "The Public Versus Austerity" as applied to education. The brief challenges the IMF’s routine recommendation of public sector wage...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
Value for money guidance note: Teachers and teaching
The GPE Secretariat has published a three-part series of guidance notes to unpack the complex and inherently interlinked questions that underpin value for money in education. As a partnership with a...
Report
Mending the education divide: Getting strong teachers to the schools that need them most, TALIS
Teachers can shape their students’ educational careers. Research shows that children taught by different teachers often experience very different educational outcomes. This begs the questions: how are...
Policy brief
Closing the gap – Ensuring there are enough qualified and supported teachers in sub-Saharan Africa
The fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) aims to ensure better learning opportunities and outcomes and more equitable and inclusive education for all. SDG target 4.c calls for an increase in...
Declaration / Statement
Call for Greater Investment in Teachers and Teaching
As the Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the enormous variations in how countries are able to respond to challenges to their education systems, this Call for Greater Investment in Teachers and Teaching...
Meeting document
The best investment – Supporting teachers in COVID-19 recovery - event concept note
Around the world, not only are there not enough teachers, but large numbers have not received sufficient training and lack minimum qualifications. The side event will present the findings of new...
Report
The State of School Education; One Year into the COVID Pandemic
In 2020, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries/economies were locked out of their schools. Students everywhere have been faced with schools that are open one day and closed the next, causing massive...
Report
UNESCO UNICEF Education a Priority in post-2015
Making Education a Priority: Report of the Global Thematic Consultation on Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda - September 2013 UNESCO/UNICEF (2013) The report offers a summary of the main...
Report
Teachers and teacher policy in primary and secondary education
Discussion Paper Education Prof. Dr. Aidan Mulkeen, William Ratteree, Ilse Voss-Lengnik September 2017 - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH This paper was created to...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
ILO Handbook of good human resource practices in the teaching profession
Teachers are recognized as key to educational quality and success in any society‘s education system. Understanding the importance of human resource policies and practices in the process of recruiting...
Declaration / Statement