Education International Research
5. Some education systems are disproportionately focused on numeracy and literacy whilst education for sustainable development is marginalised. Schools and teachers often face multiple challenges (including political interference, limited training and few resources) when it comes to teaching about human rights, democracy, global citizenship, nondiscrimination, gender equality and climate change.
Recommendations: Priority actions to accelerate progress: 1. Guarantee decent working conditions for teachers and education support personnel. Educators’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions. Raise the professional status of teachers and invest in teachers to make teaching an attractive profession. 2. Guarantee educators’ right to unionise and engage in collective bargaining. Strengthen mechanisms for social dialogue with education unions to ensure that social dialogue is regular, institutionalised and constructive. Involve teachers and education support personnel in the development of education policy. 3. Increase investment in public education, guaranteeing that education accounts for at least 20% of total government spending. Stop tax evasion and combat corruption in order to increase the tax base. Protect education from for-profit commercial education providers and strengthen regulations for quality assurance of private providers. 4. Abolish all indirect and direct costs to education and take measures to make education more inclusive of and responsive to diversity. Strengthen public systems. 5. Ensure that education systems are broad and holistic and prioritise education for sustainable development. Teachers must retain professional autonomy. Time is running out. We have no time to lose — failure is not an option.
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