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These guidelines published by IIEP are designed to support policy makers and technical staff in the planification and anticipation of their needs when managing secondary teaching staff to prevent...

Teachers for All is a mixed-methods and multi-phase research programme that generates evidence on primary school teacher allocation. This report presents findings from Botswana to support policymakers...

This article examines inequitable teacher distribution in Tanzania and its implications on the efficiency in public education expenditure. It also presents lessons learned for other countries.

The 14th Policy Dialogue Forum, themed "Addressing teacher shortages: Dignifying, diversifying and valorizing the profession," took place from 26 to 28 February 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa...

Teachers for All is a mixed-methods and multi-phase research programme that generates evidence on primary school teacher allocation. This report presents findings from Zambia to support policymakers...

Inequality in access to high-quality teachers is an important driver of student socioeconomic achievement gaps. This article experimentally evaluates a novel nation-wide low-cost government program...

The staff working in schools are the most important resource for today’s education systems, both educationally and financially. This report aims to provide guidance for the design of human resource...

This paper considers how markets and non-market institutions determine the quantity, wages, skills, and spatial distribution of teachers in developing countries. Schools are a major source of...

This research article analyzes the effectiveness of additional financial incentives given to teachers who are awarded the Chilean Pedagogical Excellence assignment if they work in disadvantaged...

This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. It explores a centralized matching process in the city of Sao Paulo that teachers must use when transferring...

This paper studies the potential of personalized smart information interventions to improve teacher assignment results in the context of a centralized choice and assignment system in Ecuador...

This study aimed to better understand why the inequitable distribution of teachers persists in Sierra Leone despite the investments in the education workforce, and how the government may resolve this...