World teacher day

Friday 5th October is World Teacher’s Day

– Teachers are being celebrated all across the world, and here in the UK you can say Thank You to your favourite teacher and send them a personal message.  Just fill in a form and we will send your teacher a lovely card in the post, for free, as part of our Thank A Teacher campaign.

We want to celebrate the professionalism, passion and commitment of our teachers. It means so much to receive a thank you, one teacher told us; “I can’t put into words how touched I was to receive this today”. We want moreteachers to know how much of a difference they are making to the lives of young people.

Anyone can send a card; children, students, parents, grandparents and colleagues can all say thank you to a teacher, teaching assistant, headteacher or team.

Celebrating World teachers day this year!

As we celebrate World Teachers’ Day this year, we take this occasion to remind the global community that “The right to education means the right to a qualified teacher.” This theme was chosen to mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), where education is recognized as a key fundamental right. A right that cannot be fulfilled without qualified teachers.

One of the main challenge to this right worldwide is the continued shortage of teachers. There are an estimated 264 million children and youth still out of school globally, and according to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, the world needs to recruit almost 69 million new teachers to reach the 2030 education goal of universal primary and secondary education. This ‘teacher gap’ is more pronounced among vulnerable populations – girls, children with disabilities, refugee and migrant children, and poor children living in rural or remote areas.

Trained and qualified teachers are fundamental to the right to education.

World Teachers’ Day is co-convened in partnership with UNICEF, UNDP, the International Labour Organization, and Education International.