National Teachers’ Day also falls this month, and in the summer, our family of GDST schools took part in National Thank a Teacher Day. There are arguments for and against Awareness Days – of course teachers should be celebrated every day – but there is a strong case to be made for more international moments to recognise the significant contributions that teachers make in shaping young people’s lives.

Not least because teachers play a key role in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 4 of inclusive and equitable quality education. However, UNESCO’s recent global report on teachers shows that teacher shortages are now a global issue, with a critical need to recruit 44 million primary and secondary teachers worldwide by 2030. Even a brief look at education news headlines recently confirms that these challenges ring true in the UK.

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