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World Teachers’ Day 2025 calls for recasting teaching as a collaborative profession. This fact sheet presents new global and regional data on teacher workforce growth, training and qualifications, and...

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...

Presentation by Carlos Vargas Tames, Chief of Section for Teacher Development at UNESCO and Head of the TTF Secretariat, at the online event Teacher education in emergencies to support attraction and...

Presentation by Dr. Oula Abu-Amsha, Coordinator Learning and Development at INEE, the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies, at the online event Teacher education in emergencies to support...

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...

Teachers are the most important school resource. In every country, teachers’ salaries and training represent the greatest share of expenditure on education; and this investment in teachers can have...

Teachers can shape their students’ educational careers. Research shows that children taught by different teachers often experience very different educational outcomes. This begs the questions: how are...

The Teacher Policy Development Guide was developed by the International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All (EFA) in close coordination with UNESCO entities and external partners of the...

In 2020 World Teachers’ Day was celebrated with the theme, “Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future”, in the context of the unprecedented disruption that the COVID-19 pandemic was causing...

Teachers are the cornerstone on which we build inclusive, equitable, quality education. The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially compromised teachers’ capacity to maintain education quality due to...

Without teachers, Sustainable Development Goal 4 to ensure inclusive and equitable, quality education for all by 2030 will not be achieved. Since teachers act as role models for students, inclusion in...

Discussion Paper Education Prof. Dr. Aidan Mulkeen, William Ratteree, Ilse Voss-Lengnik September 2017 - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH This paper was created to...