Global demand for teachers

Global demand for teachers

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_the-supply-of-teachers-is-failing-to-keep-pace-with-the-demand-for-primary-education"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">The supply of teachers is failing to keep pace with the demand for primary education</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_impact-in-sub-saharan-africa"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Impact in sub-Saharan Africa</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_quality-vs-quantity"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Quality vs. quantity</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_unesco-eatlas-of-teachers"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">UNESCO eAtlas of Teachers</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_references"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_external-links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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</div><h2 id="w_the-supply-of-teachers-is-failing-to-keep-pace-with-the-demand-for-primary-education">The supply of teachers is failing to keep pace with the demand for primary education</h2>
<p>Updated projections from the UNESCO Insitute for Statistics on the demand for teachers show that a total of 1.7 million additional primary teaching positions will need to be created by 2015 in order to achieve universal primary education (UPE). Factoring in an attrition rate of 5% per year, the total number of primary teachers needed climbs to 6.8 million, globally.
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<h3 id="w_impact-in-sub-saharan-africa">Impact in sub-Saharan Africa</h3>
<p>The situation is most dire in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 1 million new posts, must be created in order to meet the rising demand for primary education. Some countries in the region need to more than double their current teaching workforce to meet the goal of UPE. The most critical teacher gaps are found in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Malawi, Mali and Niger, which will need to increase their teaching forces by more than 10% per year to ensure enough primary-level teachers are in classrooms by 2015.
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<h3 id="w_quality-vs-quantity">Quality vs. quantity</h3>
<p>The pressure to hire more teachers to meet UPE and offset attrition rates can lead to the recruitment of less qualified teachers. In sub-Saharan Africa many countries have not been able to hire enough teachers with qualifications that meet national standards. In Angola and Malawi, which have some of the highest rates of teacher attrition, less than one-half of newly recruited teachers are qualified, putting the quality of education in these countries in jeopardy.
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<h2 id="w_unesco-eatlas-of-teachers">UNESCO eAtlas of Teachers</h2>
<p>The UIS releases new projections on global teacher shortages each year to help national and international policymakers identify and evaluate recruitment challenges and the budgetary implications associated with achieving UPE by 2015.
</p><p>In 2012, the UIS has created the UNESCO eAtlas of Teachers to illustrate the global demand for primary school teachers. Maps, graphs and tables make it easy to view and compare data from more than 200 countries and territories. It is available in <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/data/atlas-teachers/en" alt="English">English</a>, <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/data/atlas-teachers/fr" alt="French">French</a> and <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/data/atlas-teachers/es" alt="Spanish">Spanish</a>
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<h2 id="w_references">References</h2>
<ul><li>UIS Info Bulletin — <a href="http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Documents/ib10-2012-teacher-projections.pdf" alt="The Global Demand for Primary Teachers">The Global Demand for Primary Teachers</a>
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<h2 id="w_external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li>UNESCO Institute for Statistics <a href="http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=143&IF_Language=eng" alt="Data Centre">Data Centre</a>
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