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Education and training

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Education, skills and lifelong learning are the paths to social and economic development and employability. Teachers and education workers are at the heart of education and training systems. Secure employment and decent working conditions for teachers are essential strategies to ensure quality education personnel and to address global teacher shortages. The ILO promotes quality teaching through two related Recommendations concerning teaching personnel, as well as the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel . It also promotes follow-up to the Recommendations of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession.

Highlights

Revision of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers
Seated students in a university classroom, teacher next to big illuminated blackboard

Revision of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers

United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession
Cover - High Level Panel on the Teaching Profession - Recommendations and summary of deliberations

United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession

Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART)
A student and her teacher in primary school

Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART)

Key resources

Data and statistics

The bar charts show global and regional point estimates at the sectoral level, based on data from the ILO Harmonized Microdata collection. These estimates cannot be directly compared across different periods and may be updated as new information becomes available. The estimates provided and published by the ILO may differ from those produced and released at the national level.

For more detailed labour market indicators and country-level data, visit the Sectoral Employment Statistics page of the ILOSTAT database.

Events

Africa Skills Week 2026: Skills Hubs as a lever for Africa’s skills revolution

Thursday 15 October 2026 - 14:00-15:00

Africa Skills Week 2026: Skills Hubs as a lever for Africa’s skills revolution

Africa Skills Week 2026: What makes skills systems work?

Thursday 15 October 2026 - 15:05-16:05

Africa Skills Week 2026: What makes skills systems work?

Africa Skills Week 2026: Work-Based Learning and Recognition of Prior Learning for inclusive skills development in Africa

Friday 16 October 2026

Africa Skills Week 2026: Work-Based Learning and Recognition of Prior Learning for inclusive skills development in Africa

News

How virtual reality is helping Uganda's youth prepare for the world of work
a trainer woman helping an event participant to operate virtual reality equipment

Article

How virtual reality is helping Uganda's youth prepare for the world of work

Safer work takes root on Indonesia’s coffee farms
Three persons

Our impact, their voices

Safer work takes root on Indonesia’s coffee farms

Small changes help a woman farmer work safer in Lampung, Indonesia
A woman

Our impact, their voices

Small changes help a woman farmer work safer in Lampung, Indonesia

Publications and documents

Disability inclusion in skills and employment: progress, challenges, and policy priorities

Policy brief

Disability inclusion in skills and employment: progress, challenges, and policy priorities

Employment implications of the floods in Nepal: A preliminary rapid assessment

ILO brief

Employment implications of the floods in Nepal: A preliminary rapid assessment

What We Learned, Where We’re Going Next

Publication

What We Learned, Where We’re Going Next

Projects

Strategic Skills Partnership Initiative (SSPI) for Innovation and Excellence in Vocational Education and Training

Strategic Skills Partnership Initiative (SSPI) for Innovation and Excellence in Vocational Education and Training

Just Transitions for Men, Women and Youth through Skills Training and Jobs Creation in Sustainable Construction and Eco-Tourism in Flood...

Just transition through skills for employment

Just Transitions for Men, Women and Youth through Skills Training and Jobs Creation in Sustainable Construction and Eco-Tourism in Flood...

Supporting a Talent Partnership with Bangladesh

Project: Skills development and labour migration

Supporting a Talent Partnership with Bangladesh

Sectoral Codes of Practice and Guidelines

Sectoral Codes of Practice and Guidelines

Sectoral meetings

Sectoral meetings

Conclusions and recommendations of sectoral meetings

Conclusions and recommendations of sectoral meetings

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