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Rafael Pontuschka; Sophia Kan – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2023
Instruction time is a crucial component of student learning and is closely associated with attendance rates for students, teachers and directors. This report examines teacher and director absenteeism in Mozambique's schools, using data from surveys conducted in 2018, 2019, and 2021 as part of the Longitudinal Assessment of School Dropout or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrators, Teacher Behavior, Employee Absenteeism
Játiva, Ximena; Karamperidou, Despina; Mills, Michelle; Vindrola, Stefania; Wedajo, Hanna; Dsouza, Andrea; Bergmann, Jessica – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
Teachers are the most important drivers of students' academic achievement and they are at the heart of learning recovery efforts. Finding out the bottlenecks and necessary conditions for ensuring teachers' presence at school and in the classroom is essential. Time to Teach is a mixed methods research initiative that aims to find out the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attendance, Influences
UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa, the loss of teaching hours due to teacher absenteeism corresponds to a waste of approximately 46 cents for every US dollar invested in education, an annual wastage of 1-3% of GDP. This brief summarizes the results of research in 11 countries in West and Central Africa under the Time to Teach study, a project in UNICEF that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employee Absenteeism, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Attendance
Akseer, Spogmai; Játiva, Ximena – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
Education has been a priority for Ghana since its independence, with current expenditures representing double the average for Africa and other developing nations. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government aimed to enhance the quality of education and teacher attendance, including improving school infrastructure and providing textbooks and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attendance, Time Management, Teacher Behavior
Akseer, Spogmai; Játiva, Ximena – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
Prior to COVID-19 lockdowns, the Federal Republic of Nigeria had taken measures to improve the quality of education and of teachers' working conditions such as by improving school infrastructure and accelerating teacher training programs, and providing incentive schemes for teachers. While education is free and compulsory, Nigeria reports the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attendance, Time Management, Teacher Behavior
Akseer, Spogmai; Játiva, Ximena – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
In Rwanda, over 3.5 million children were estimated to be out of school in 2020 when the country closed all schools as a safety measure against the spread of COVID-19. The government quickly developed a national response plan and started the process of hiring teachers, constructing classrooms and training in-service teachers in remote-learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attendance, Time Management, Teacher Behavior
UNICEF, 2012
Teacher absenteeism is a global phenomenon. It is recognised in numerous studies and policy documents as one of the most critical causes of children's impaired learning and moral growth, and as a barrier to national and international development goals, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Education For All (EFA). This research is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attendance, Employee Absenteeism, Elementary School Teachers
Robison, M. Henry; Christophersen, Kjell A. – Association of Canadian Community Colleges, 2008
The purpose of this volume is to present the results of the economic impact analysis in detail by gender and entry level of education. On the data entry side, gender and entry level of education are important variables that help characterize the student body profile. This profile data links to national statistical databases which are already…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Economic Impact, Foreign Countries, Profiles