Closing the talent gap: Attracting and retaining top-third graduates to careers in teaching

McKinsey & Company has just published a report on how to attract young people with strong academic backgrounds to the teaching profession. Although the report is aimed at the United States, it outlines how three of the world’s top-performing education systems, (Finland, Singapore and South Korea) manage to recruit 100 percent of their incoming teachers from the top third of their academic cohort.


Explanations include making admission to teacher training programs—and to teaching positions—highly selective, establishing rigorous performance management systems, offering opportunities for professional advancement, increasing the prestige of the teaching profession and offering competitive salaries. The report cautions that success in any particular country will require considerable research and experimentation.

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:
http://hivaidsclearinghouse.unesco.org/search/format_liste.php?lang=en&ret=topics.php&Chp6=Teacher+training+and+support

 

Première Conférence mondiale des femmes de l'IE (19-22 mai 2010, à Bangkok, en Thaïlande) : les enseignants sur la voie de l'égalité

Pour de plus amples informations sur la conférence, veuillez consulter http://www.ei-ie.org/.