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Teacher supply and demand
This document discusses factors related to teacher supply and demand as well as access and equity in education. For teacher supply and demand, it identifies key factors like teacher training output, teacher demographics, and projections of student enrollment. Planning issues include who has authority over teacher hiring and deployment as well as balancing urban and rural teacher allocation. Access and equity indicators include completion rates, enrollment data disaggregated by student characteristics, and planning to resolve barriers to access through funding formulas and infrastructure investments. The document proposes consulting stakeholders, reviewing literature, and collecting various education and socioeconomic data over 1-2 years to inform recommendations. Potential recommendations address reforming teacher education, incentives, salaries, assessments, and training as well as investing in education quality, conditional
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- 1. Teacher supply anddemand, and school access task team Asia group 27th January EPGD
- 2. Teacher Supply andDemand Factors for teacher supply : -teachers training institution output capacity - stocks and flows of qualified and unqualified teachers - training for teachers in the system. - workforce changes in future years -demography, budget - teacher migration in (from abroad or private sector) Factors for teacher demand: -demographics of current teachers/students - teacher retirement age and age distribution - TPR and subject shortages - teacher attrition and migration out(to abroad or private sector) - effects of conflict or HIV / AIDs - ghost teachers
- 3. Teacher Supply andDemand Projections of learner enrolment and supply needs: - NER -GER - population growth & mortality under 5 - primary completion rates - ASER Planning issues for teacher supply and demand -authority of teacher hiring & redeployment? -balance of teachers deployment between urban and rural schools -system of teacher salaries and funding
- 4. Equity and Access Indicatorsfor access and equity: Government data for: - completion and enrolment rates - Zones of exclusion and ASER - PTR and attendance - Achievement levels Disaggregate all data by gender, race, caste, region, etc
- 5. Equity and Access Planningand resolving issues of equity and access Finance: -school level or the district level? -barriers to access -redistribution of money, resources, teachers -funding formula or school budget Infrastructure and physical facilities: -equitable allocation of investment in schools/classrooms, upgrading Within education: Assessment methods Quality and equity principals in curriculum
- 6. Implementation of research Methodology -consultstakeholders -literature review -1 to 2 years What kind of information and data? -Data from human resource management, census surveys, household surveys, unemployment levels, education payroll, five or ten year reports on trends, UIS, governments, international orgs, schools, PRSP, NGOs reports.
- 7. General planning issues -political:eg election cycle -social and cultural: eg gender differences -economic: eg funding -global: eg MDG
- 8. Example recommendations • TeacherSupply, Demand and Utilisation recommendations • Reform or invest in teacher education • Equal opportunity employment • Extension of retirement age • Incentives to bring teachers back from workforce or abroad or to stay in schools or to work rurally • Appropriate assessment of teachers • Higher salaries • Increase para-teachers • Assurance of employment • Remove ghost teachers • In-service training / upskillling • Distance education and ICT’s • Teaching assistants • Access and Equity recommendations • Invest in quality of education and curriculum reform and materials • Conditional cash transfers • Vouchers • Scholarships • Build more schools • Flexible teaching timetables and non-formal or second chance education • Partnerships with private sectors / community NGO’s • Free school meals • Language policy change to mother tongue in early years • ECCE investment • Gender sensitive pedagogy • National fund to balance inequitable funding • Distance learning and education for special needs • Collaboration mechanisms between health, welfare and social aid sectors • Multigrade teaching • Decentralisation • TVET projects