This chapter reviews the empirical research on the supply of teachers in Latin America. The first part stresses the importance of teacher labor market perspectives for understanding the supply of high-quality teachers, one challenge that most countries in the region face. The second part introduces the teacher labor market framework that guides…

Early childhood care and education (ECCE) programme has been identified as a strong tool to break the cycle of poverty and effective means to establish the basis for further learning, prevent school drop-out, increase equity of outcomes and overall skill levels; hence all nations of the world call for effective investment in ECCE. Nigeria embraced…

This paper adopts an inductive analytical approach to reviewing the major state policies to reform teacher education in China. Based on the perceived impact on teachers and teacher education, 21 policy documents have been selected for this review. Five themes emerge in the analysis, which include: Expansion of teacher education by institutional…

While much is known about the high academic but low affective achievement of Korean students on international comparative studies, little is known about science teacher education in Korea. As the quality of science teachers is an important factor determining the quality of science education, gaining an understanding of science education in Korea…

The staffing of rural, remote and isolated schools remains a significant issue of concern in Australian education. In this paper we provide a comprehensive account of the Australian research related to the staffing of rural schools post 2004. The review identifies the overarching themes of the opportunities and challenges of staffing rural…

This article focuses on teacher education in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that the restructuring and reorganization of teacher education is at the nexus of the axes of tension created by national and global imperatives for change. Along with the dismantling of apartheid and the transition to a free and democratic state in 1994 came the…

The British government insists that all of its possible sources of ethnic minority teachers have problems that may reduce the supply. The government is caught in a trap created by its own attitudes about affirmative action and is obsessed by educational traditions that no longer work. (MSE)

A number of countries have predicted a serious shortage of college faculty. Recent demographic information is examined for evidence of the problem, and some salient staffing problems are identified. It is concluded that most industrialized countries will experience staffing difficulties and should consider how their responses will affect other…

The recent rapid growth of Saudi higher education and the need for faculty are examined, with reference to government publications and international statistics. The possibility of having an adequate Saudi faculty and of using Arabic as the standard language of instruction are discussed. (MSE)

In December 1988 the Council of the European Communities adopted a directive to promote teacher mobility throughout the European Community (EC) by defining mutual qualifications. The purpose of this report is to assess the impact of the initiative on educational services. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 examines teacher recruitment…

This analytical review aims at exploring trends in educational access and delineating different groups, which are vulnerable to exclusion from educational opportunities at the elementary stage. This review has drawn references from series of analytical papers developed on different themes i.e. regional disparity in education, social equity and…

With the advent of microcomputers during the 1970's, foreign countries have been trying to introduce some form of computer literacy into the school curriculum. This paper presents the efforts of the Department of Education of the Fiji Islands to introduce computer education into the curriculum and constraints that impede those efforts. Since the…

Declining enrollment in Ontario, a mild issue in the early 1970s, became a crisis by 1976, and was spelled out as such in 1978. Teacher surplus, not shortage, became a new reality. Inservice training thus acquired new importance in overall teacher development since it stands as one of the few options left to teachers trying to save their jobs.…

This volume reviews the development of teacher education in Japan from 1868 to the present. The first section examines teacher education in Japan from 1868 to 1945, covering the development of normal schools; the Tokyo Normal School, Japan's first modern teacher education institute, founded in 1872; conservative reaction during the 1880s and the…

The popular conviction that Canadian universities will experience a serious faculty shortage in the 1990s is examined through statistics on faculty aging and replacement demand, retirement conditions, faculty renewal incentives, and the supply of doctoral recipients. It is concluded that there will be a surplus well into the 1990s. (MSE)