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The staff working in schools are the most important resource for today’s education systems, both educationally and financially. This report aims to provide guidance for the design of human resource...

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...

This research article analyzes the effectiveness of additional financial incentives given to teachers who are awarded the Chilean Pedagogical Excellence assignment if they work in disadvantaged...

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...

This paper presents the reflections by Ms. Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO, on generative AI and the future of education. The paper identifies some of the...

This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. It explores a centralized matching process in the city of Sao Paulo that teachers must use when transferring...

This paper studies the potential of personalized smart information interventions to improve teacher assignment results in the context of a centralized choice and assignment system in Ecuador...

This study aimed to better understand why the inequitable distribution of teachers persists in Sierra Leone despite the investments in the education workforce, and how the government may resolve this...

This study analyzes whether the Indian government is able to recruit and deploy teachers where necessary, whether practices are informed by policies, and if all of this is being done in a transparent...

These guidelines are intended to assist Education Ministries in Southeast Asia, as well as other relevant ministries and agencies in both professionalizing early childhood teachers and promoting...

Considerando los desafíos que la región enfrenta en seleccionar y asignar los mejores docentes a las escuelas que más los necesitan este documento busca responder dos preguntas fundamentales: ¿cómo...

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...