Joint ILO/UNESCO recommendations concerning teaching personnel

This report summarizes the analysis of major issues affecting the current status of teaching personnel worldwide at all levels of education by the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART). Key issues include:

• Social dialogue in education;
• Teacher education – initial and continuing;
• Employment and careers, teacher salaries, including teacher compensation in fragile states, and teaching and learning conditions;
• Teacher shortages in the framework of Education for All (EFA), including financing and recruitment challenges, impact of HIV and AIDS on the profession, and recruitment and retention of female teachers;
• Academic freedom and institutional autonomy in higher education;
• Higher education terms and conditions of employment: Impact of private and for-profit providers of post-secondary education.

More information on impacts of HIV and AIDS on the teaching profession can be found at:
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