(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Under the banner Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status, events at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris and around the world,will commemorate the 50 anniversary of the landmark and highlight the critical importance of the profession for global development and the need for urgent action to address the shortage of teachers. In the next 14 years, 24.4 million primary school teachers and 44.4 million secondary school teachers are required, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Sub-Saharan Africa faces the largest teacher gap: it will need a...
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