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This report analyses the earnings of full-time, fully qualified teachers and school heads in public schools in 42 European education systems (2). At secondary level, however, only general programmes...

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...

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...

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...

UNESCO, its International Institute for Capacity Building (IICBA) in Africa and the Teacher Task Force (TTF), are organizing a series of seminars in 2021 for national policy-makers and other relevant...

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...

Over the past year, education systems around the world have faced unprecedented disruption as governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the height of the pandemic last year, over 190 countries...

These Guidelines set out principles for the promotion of decent work for early childhood education (ECE) personnel as a means of ensuring universal access to high-quality ECE services. In this respect...

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...

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...

This report summarizes the findings of two sets of studies on digitalization in teaching and education in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and the United Republic of Tanzania. The first set of studies...