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EDUCATION Primary Education
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Quality teachers are the cornerstone of quality education. Indicators suggest that a minimum of 15 million new teachers will be needed by 2015, but the ravages of HIV/AIDS may mean that this figure is too low.

Alarm has been raised in many parts of the world about the growing shortage of teachers, their low salaries, poor working conditions and poor training, all of which has contributed to a steady decline in their status. UNESCO aims to strengthen national and international teacher training policies for all levels of the education system, to increase national capacities for training teachers, particularly in specialised subjects such as information and communication technologies (ICT), and making wider use of distance education in teacher training programmes.


Teacher Education

UNESCO gives emphasis to teacher policy and teacher education in sub-Saharan African countries, where troubled educational and working conditions, as well as the impact of the AIDS pandemic, have created significant teacher shortages and impeded teaching quality by building the capacity of lead teacher training institutions to substantially increase the numbers of qualified teachers, especially those in primary education. More
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Joint Programme for the Promotion of Basic Education for All Malagasy Children in Madagascar
Learning to read and write in a month!