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Education, skills and lifelong learning are the paths to social and economic development and employability. Teachers and education workers are at the heart of education and training systems. Secure employment and decent working conditions for teachers are essential strategies to ensure quality education personnel and to address global teacher shortages. The ILO promotes quality teaching through two related Recommendations concerning teaching personnel, as well as the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel . It also promotes follow-up to the Recommendations of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession.

United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession
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United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession

Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART)
A student and her teacher in primary school

Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART)

Events

10 Years of the ILO Policy Guidelines on ECE personnel

15 November 2023

10 Years of the ILO Policy Guidelines on ECE personnel

Technical meeting on the future of work in the education sector

Geneva, 17-21 May 2021

Technical meeting on the future of work in the education sector

Global Dialogue Forum on Employment Terms and Conditions in Tertiary Education

Geneva, 18-20 September 2018

Global Dialogue Forum on Employment Terms and Conditions in Tertiary Education

All publications

Recommendations and summary of deliberations of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession (2024)

Transforming the teaching profession

Recommendations and summary of deliberations of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession (2024)

10 Years of the ILO Policy Guidelines on Early Childhood Education Personnel

10 Years of the ILO Policy Guidelines on Early Childhood Education Personnel

Teaching and the teaching profession in a digital world – Bosnia and Herzegovina

Teaching and the teaching profession in a digital world – Bosnia and Herzegovina