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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. They are meant...

This is the first global report to illustrate the monetary costs to economies around the world of leaving children and youth behind in education, and it has been jointly produced by UNESCO, the OECD...

This paper describes the vision and key principles guiding the World Bank’s support to countries on teachers.

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...

This document presents the highlights of The Global Report on Teachers. Addressing teacher shortages, which is the first edition of a biennial report that will fill a gap within existing data and...

This document compiles the full list of references cited in the highlights of the Global Report on Teachers. Addressing teacher shortages, available here and launched on 8th November 2023. The report...

World Teachers’ Day 2023 focuses on the need to reverse global teacher shortages, including how to improve the profession’s appeal. This fact sheet aims to highlight new global and regional data on...

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...

Student learning levels in low- and middle-income countries are low, and analysis of the proximate causes often points to failures among teachers, whether a lack of content knowledge, high absenteeism...

Gender equality for teachers and representation that reflects the diversity of classrooms and communities are key to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all. To commemorate...

The Youth Declaration was presented as young people’s inputs to the Transforming Education Summit Chair Summary/Secretary-General’s Vision Statement. Its aim is to drive political commitment on the...

This paper published on World Teachers’ Day 2022 aims to provide a contextual, data-driven overview of the key challenges facing teachers around the world in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and...