Taiwan: Institutionalized salary increases and adequate professional wages are key to recruiting and retaining teachers
As teacher shortages in Taiwan continue to worry parents and the wider community, the National Teachers’ Association (NTA) is calling for real change. The NTA emphasizes that teachers’ hard work and the many responsibilities they assume must be fairly recognized through better pay and improved working conditions. Only then can...
Belgium : unions oppose plan that worsens working conditions for teachers
A teaching profession suffering from burn out and from significant staff shortages. An undervalued non-profit sector. Demotivated, undervalued, and disrespected, teachers are advising their own children not to join the profession they have been passionately committed to for decades. These are the main issues for which teachers in Belgium have...
Effective school leadership should top global and national policy agendas
Supporting quality, inclusive and supportive school leadership should at the top of global and national development and education policy agendas. This was the call from education union officials, school leaders, educational leadership experts, policy makers and partners at the school leadership conference organized by Education International in Johannesburg, South Africa...