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Women who teach: recruiting and retaining female teachers in crisis settings
This brief provides an overview of evidence and gaps in the recruitment and retention of female teachers in emergency contexts and recommends actions for supporting female teachers’ wellbeing and...
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Rethinking teacher training to support a lifelong learning journey
This policy brief advocates a shift from traditional professional development to lifelong learning, aligning with UNESCO's 2021 social contract for education. Emphasizing collaboration, it addresses...
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Effective approaches to attract and retain teachers and ensure equitable deployment: A contribution from the Teacher Task Force to the discussions of the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession
A global teacher shortage phenomenon is highly spreading threatening the aim of equitable and quality education for all students. This brief highlights the global impact of teacher shortages on...
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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...
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Producing high-quality teachers in Latin America
This policy brief reviews the global debate on how to produce high-quality teachers, and connects that debate with conditions prevailing in Latin America. It discusses diverse approaches to the...
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Ensuring effective teacher management in refugee settings: Public schools in Jordan. Policy brief
This policy brief aims to provide research-informed policy guidance for the effective management of elementary-level teachers in public schools catering to Syrian refugees in Jordan. The guidance is...
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Refugee teachers: A quick guide
This guide provides basic planning and programming recommendations for managing refugee teachers, and is geared particularly towards camp settings where teachers are being recruited directly from...
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Transforming Education Summit - Action Track 3 on Teachers, teaching and the teaching profession - discussion paper (final draft)
As part of the global preparation for the 2022 Transforming Education Summit, the third thematic Action Track will be focusing on “Teachers, teaching and the teaching profession”. It will examine...
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Why is the gender ratio of teachers imbalanced?
Women are strongly over-represented among teachers. The share of female teachers is highest in primary schools and decreases with increasing level of education. Only among tertiary teachers is the...
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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...
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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...
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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...