TANZANIA AMONG THE LEADING COUNTRIES WITH TEACHER RECRUITMENT NEEDS

Tanzania is one of the top ten countries globally with the highest projection of the total number of teachers who have to be recruited by 2030. According to the new paper, jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report on World Teachers' Day, Tanzania needs to recruit at least 406,600 new teachers by 2030.

Closely followed by Tanzania is Uganda, which stands as the tenth most needy country in teacher recruitment. According to the statistics, Uganda needs at least 372,800 new teachers by 2030. Other African countries leading the league of ten most needy countries are Nigeria at number four and Democratic Republic of Congo at number seven.

The new data released by UNESCO show a chronic lack of trained teachers in many countries. Without action, it will be impossible to get all children into school and learning by 2030. In total more than 27 million teachers will be needed to achieve universal primary education by 2030. The report also shows that in the rush to fill this gap, many countries are recruiting new teachers with little training.

In the past decade, countries have made great efforts to steadily increase the supply of teachers. Since 1999, at least 22 countries have more than doubled their teacher workforces. In particular, Afghanistan, Burundi, Congo and Niger have tripled their teaching staff over the same period. To date, in primary education alone, there are about 29 million teachers working in classrooms around the world.

For more information about the statistical data on teachers, please consult. http://tellmaps.com/uis/teachers/  or contact j.alima-kotta@unesco.org