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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...
Report
The future of work in the education sector in the context of lifelong learning for all, skills and the Decent Work Agenda
Report for the Technical Meeting on the Future of Work in the Education Sector in the Context of Lifelong Learning for All, Skills and the Decent Work Agenda (Geneva, 17–21 May 2021). This report aims...
Policy brief
The futures of teaching - Background paper prepared for the Futures of Education Initiative
The Futures of Education initiative, launched by UNESCO in November 2019, seeks to mobilize ideas and action that can enable education to respond to the enormous challenges that humans are confronting...
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
School leadership in low- and middle-income countries
Results of Baseline Survey on High-Leverage Leadership Actions Despite the enormity of the role of school leaders in education systems, school leadership remains underutilized and under-researched. We...
Global Teaching Insights during COVID-19 - Takeaways from the webinar series
Around the world, teachers have responded to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic with ingenuity, flexibility and professionalism. In late 2020 and early 2021, the OECD, UNESCO and the...
Report
Teacher Task Force - Annual Report 2020
The work of the Teacher Task Force in 2020 is based on three main lines of action plus governance, as identified in the 2018-2021 Strategic Plan. Progress and challenges have been reported against...
Policy brief
Female science and mathematics teachers - better than they think?
Using IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2015 data, this brief explores the relationship between teachers’ gender and students’ mathematics and science achievement, as...
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...
Brochure / Flyer
Teaching on the front line: National teacher responses to the COVID-19 crisis
As the COVID-19 pandemic reached its height in April 2020, 190 countries around the world enacted country- wide school closures. These measures affected at least 1.6 billion students and more than 100...