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1966 CEART Recommendation
concerning the Status of Teachers

Cover and Introduction

1. Definitions
2. Scope
3. Guiding principles
4. Educational objectives and policies
5. Preparation for the profession
6. Further education for teachers
7. Employment and career
8. The rights and responsibilities of teachers
9. Conditions for effective teaching and learning
10. Teachers' salaries
11. Social security
12. The teacher shortage
13. Final provision

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Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers

Adopted on 5 October 1966 by the Special Intergovernmental
Conference on the Status of Teachers, convened by UNESCO,
Paris, in cooperation with the ILO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

International Labour Organization

The Special Intergovernmental Conference on the Status of Teachers,

    Recalling that the right to education is a fundamental human right,

    Conscious of the responsibility of the States for the provision of proper education for all in fulfilment of Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of Principles 5, 7 and 10 of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and of the. United Nations Declaration concerning the Promotion among Youth of the Ideals of Peace, Mutual Respect and Understanding between Peoples,

    Aware of the need for more extensive and widespread general and technical and vocational education, with a view to making full use of all the talent and intelligence available as an essential contribution to continued moral and cultural progress and economic and social advancement,

    Recognizing the essential role of teachers in educational advancement and the importance of their contribution to the development of man and modem society,

    Concerned to ensure that teachers enjoy the status commensurate with this role,

    Taking into account the great diversity of the laws, regulations and customs which, in different countries, determine the patterns and organization of education,

    Taking also into account the diversity of the arrangements which in different countries apply to teaching staff, in particular according to whether the regulations concerning the public service apply to them,

    Convinced that in spite of these differences similar questions arise in all countries with regard to the status of teachers and that these questions call for the application of a act of common standards and measures, which it is the purpose of this Recommendation to set out,

    Noting the terms of existing international conventions which are applicable to teachers, and in particularof instruments concerned with basic human rights such as the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention, 1948, the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949, the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951, and the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958, adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation, and the Convention against Discrimination in Education, 1960, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,

    Noting also the recommendations on various aspects of the preparation and the status of teachers in primary and secondary schools adopted by the International Conference on Public Education convened jointly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the International Bureau of Education, and the Recommendation concerning Technical and Vocational Education, 1962, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,

    Desiring to supplement existing standards by provisions relating to problems of peculiar concern to teachers and to remedy the problems of teacher shortage,

    Has adopted this Recommendation:

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