Recasting teaching as a collaborative profession.
The Global celebration of World Teachers’ Day 2025 is co-convened by UNESCO in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNICEF and EducationInternational.
Teachers need training to lead education Transformation.
A new fact sheet by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) & Teacher Task Force, estimates that only 14% of low-income countries have policies mandating continuing professional development for primary school teachers. The trend is declining, with the share of trained primary teachers in sub-Saharan Africa dropping from 85% to 69%, and trained secondary teachers from 79% to 59%, between 2000 and 2024. This lack of support for teachers undermines educational quality and equity, contributing to more teachers leaving the profession. The global shortage highlights the urgency: 44 million additional teachers are needed by 2030 to achieve universal primary and secondary education. " On this World Teachers’ Day, UNESCO, ILO, UNICEF and Education International call on governments, partners and the international community to make a collective commitment to ensuring that collaboration is recognized as a norm within the teaching profession – because it is only through effective cooperat...
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