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Meeting document
Report of the Joint ILO–UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel. Final Report: Fifteenth Session
This report summarizes the discussions and conclusions concerning major issues affecting the status of teaching personnel by the 15th Session of the Joint ILO–UNESCO Committee of Experts on the...
Policy document
Global framework of professional teaching standards
This document outlines a Professional Teaching Standards Framework for teachers. The framework focuses on clarifying and specifying teaching standards aimed at enhancing equitable and quality...
Policy document
Recommendations of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession
The High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession was established by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres following the Transforming Education Summit held in 2022. It was tasked with...
Policy brief
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...
Policy brief
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...
Policy brief
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...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
Value for money guidance note: Teachers and teaching
The GPE Secretariat has published a three-part series of guidance notes to unpack the complex and inherently interlinked questions that underpin value for money in education. As a partnership with a...
Policy brief
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...
Declaration / Statement
Call for Greater Investment in Teachers and Teaching
As the Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the enormous variations in how countries are able to respond to challenges to their education systems, this Call for Greater Investment in Teachers and Teaching...
Meeting document
The best investment – Supporting teachers in COVID-19 recovery - event concept note
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...
Report
The State of School Education; One Year into the COVID Pandemic
In 2020, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries/economies were locked out of their schools. Students everywhere have been faced with schools that are open one day and closed the next, causing massive...
Meeting document
Teachers indicators meeting report
REPORT INDICATORS FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHING EXPERT GROUP MEETING - 2012 International Task force on Teachers for EFA, UNESCO Teachers and Higher Education, UNESCO Institute for Statistics This report...