Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term)...

Developing, promoting and maintaining a good professional teaching workforce from primary to upper secondary education is a policy imperative for education systems around the world. The data drawn from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) can help policy makers and...

Reaching and teaching marginalized children -- Conceptual framework: marginalized children and their teachers -- Setting the study context: India, Mexico, and Tanzania -- Demand-size explanations for inequitable teacher distribution -- Supply-size explanations for inequitable teacher...