This study consolidates the evidence base across the EU28 regarding the diversity of the teaching workforce with regard to migrant and/or minority background. Increasing diversity within the teaching profession is one potential response to the evolving needs of an increasingly multicultural...

Developing systems for quality assurance and accreditation in teacher education is regarded as one of the most important ways of improving the quality and effectiveness of education as a whole. This study discusses current arrangements for evaluating and accrediting institutions and programmes...

The purpose of this overview is to outline and analyse the development of the teaching profession in Europe in recent decades. It is based on the information contained in the national reform tables mentioned above. These tables show changes to the profession that are considered to be reasonably...

This fourth and final report on the teaching profession does not provide a summary in the strict sense of the comparisons made in the three separate reports. It attempts to stimulate further thought and discussion in response to five key issues of interest throughout Europe. A twofold concern...

Working conditions are key to understanding the teaching profession in Europe today. Identifying what makes the profession 'attractive' or otherwise is closely bound up with the conditions in which teachers undertake their professional responsibilities and with the quality of their working life...

The aim of this study is to gain a better insight into the situation characterising the profession in different countries, the way in which it is changing, and the way also in which national policy-makers are attempting to meet the challenges that have been identified. It sets out to analyse how...

The aim of this study is to gain a better insight into the situation characterising the profession in different countries, the way in which it is changing, and the way also in which national policy-makers are attempting to meet the challenges that have been identified. It sets out to analyse how...

The book provides detailed coverage of the terminology used at national level to refer to teaching staff. It inlcudes those terms that are officially adopted or widespread and specific to a particular national education system. Readers will thus be able to conveniently to locate the definitions...

For the children of migrants, learning the language of instruction and assessment so that they can enter school or carry on their education is paramount. Education authorities in many parts of the EU are faced with this challenge because of growing levels of mobility. Enabling such children to...