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Report
Training better teachers: An implementation brief for improving practice-based initial teacher education
The evidence presented in this report and through the sector mapping study demonstrates how well-designed alternative education models can provide solutions to the challenges faced by the South...
Report
The teaching profession in Québec: Current and potential pathways. Summary
This report has been produced by the Conseil supérieur de l’éducation du Québec, an independent body whose mandate is to advise the Ministers of Education and Higher Education on any matter relating...
Article
The teachers who leave. Teacher attrition in Burkina Faso
High teacher attrition affects education systems through direct costs in replacing teachers who left the service, and indirect costs in classroom disruption and loss in experience. Efforts to address...
Report
The global private, fiscal and social costs of children and youth not learning
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...
Report
Successful teachers, successful students: Recruiting and supporting society's most crucial profession
This paper describes the vision and key principles guiding the World Bank’s support to countries on teachers.
Policy brief
Women who teach: recruiting and retaining female teachers in crisis settings
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...
Policy brief
Establishing effective teacher policies: guidelines for action
This document is a call to actively step up the implementation of more effective teacher policies in Latin America, building on the efforts that many countries in the region have already set in motion...
Report
Global report on teachers. Addressing teacher shortages. Highlights
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...
Meeting document
Global report on teachers. Addressing teacher shortages. References
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...
Report
2023 World Teachers' Day fact sheet
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...
Article
Solving the teacher shortage: How to attract and retain excellent educators
This paper reviews an extensive body of research on teacher recruitment and retention, and identifies five major factors that influence teachers’ decisions to enter, stay in, or leave the teaching...
Report
Teacher supply and shortages: the implications of teacher supply challenges for schools and pupils
The report presents the results of a survey of senior school leaders in England with responsibility for staffing in autumn 2020 and autumn 2021 on their experience of teacher recruitment, retention...