Education Resource - Policy

Global perspectives on teacher learning: improving policy and practices (hard copy saved)
Paris 2007
UNESCO: Int Inst for Educational Planning

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Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel Report
Ninth Session
Geneva, 30 October – 3 November 2006
(hard copy saved)


I. Monitoring the application of the 1966 and 1997 Recommendations:
Thematic considerations ... 6
A. Major trends: The perspectives of international organizations... 6
B. The status of teachers: Trends in the application of the 1966 Recommendation... 7
Social dialogue in education ... 7
Teacher education – Initial and continuing... 9
Employment and careers... 11
Teaching and learning conditions; ICT... 14
Teacher salaries .... 16
Education for All .... 18
HIV and AIDS and its impact on teaching .... 19
Gender and education .... 20
C. The status of higher education teachers: Trends in the application of the 1997
Recommendation .... 22
Academic freedom in higher education .... 22
Employment and tenure in higher education .... 23
Higher education: Freedom of association and staff participation
in decision-making... 25


Teacher salaries
70. Article 115 of the 1966 Recommendation, and Article 57 of the 1997 Recommendation, specifically recognize the critical importance of adequate salary levels in relation to the status of teachers and higher education teaching personnel. The Joint Committee has, on earlier occasions, emphasized that payment of salaries which adequately reflect the professional status of teaching by way of comparison with other professions, plainly affect decisions of individuals as to whether or not to enter and remain in the teaching profession.

While expenditure on education is often subject to tight fiscal constraints, and notwithstanding that teachers’ salaries and allowances already usually account for a substantial percentage of current public expenditure on education (an average of 64 per cent in OECD countries and often more than 90 per cent in many developing countries), the salaries of teachers are still insufficient to provide them with a reasonable standard of living in a substantial number of countries.