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How the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting contract teachers in sub-Saharan Africa
By Peter Wallet, Teacher Task Force and Pierre Varly, Consultant The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on education systems. At its height, 194 countries had implemented country-wide school closures, affecting 63 million primary and secondary teachers. Sub-Saharan Africa … Continue reading
Posted in Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, sub-Saharan Africa, teacher, teaching
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What teacher shortage? It’s not just the scale but the nature of the challenge
By Colin Bangay, Senior Education Adviser, DFID Sierra Leone Most would agree that good teachers make all the difference. As recent research attests, ‘the most effective interventions to improve student learning rely on teachers’. The imperative to bring the magnitude of … Continue reading
The latest facts and statistics on teachers
To mark World Teachers’ Day, we have partnered with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 to pull together key facts and statistics on challenges for teachers around the world. The … Continue reading
Let teachers teach: The dangers of expanding teacher workloads
Today, on World Teachers’ Day, we look at one of the findings in the 2017/8 GEM Report on accountability in education due out later this month. The Report celebrates the undeniably critical role that teachers play in any education system: … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Teachers, teaching, tertiary education, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teacher, teachers, teaching
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Closing the circle: Teaching gender issues to teachers
Last week the French supreme council for gender equality published a report on the imperative to keep mainstreaming gender equality issues in teacher preparation programs and to make knowledge and skills in these areas required for teacher graduation. “Making teachers … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, pedagogy, Teachers, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, target 4.c, teacher, teaching
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Target 4c – What is at stake for monitoring progress on teachers?
4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States Target 4.c focuses on the supply of qualified … Continue reading
Posted in monitoring, pedagogy, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged monitoring, monitoring sdg 4 blog series, SDG, SDG4, SDGs, target 4.c, teacher
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Supporting today’s teachers to meet tomorrow’s challenges
Teachers play an integral role in children and young people’s lives. They are often the first significant adult role model that young children encounter outside of their family, and can influence not only what they learn at school, but the … Continue reading
Posted in pedagogy, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged education, learning, school, target 4.c, teach, teacher, teaching
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Wanted urgently: adequately trained teachers so all children can go to school by 2030
By Aaron Benavot, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report and Albert Motivans, head of Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A new paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Literacy, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Rural areas, Teachers
Tagged Africa, development, education, learning, post-2015, quality, skills, target 4.c, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching
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