Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol

The Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol was adopted at a ministerial meeting at Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom on 1 September 2004.

It was developed at the request of the 15th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Edinburgh, UK, in October 2003.

The protocol aims to balance the rights of teachers to migrate internationally, on a temporary or permanent basis, against the need to protect the integrity of national education systems, and prevent the exploitation of scarce human resources in developing or low income countries.

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• Teacher Recruitment Protocol

Many teachers take advantage of increasing opportunities to teach in another country. For most, it is a positive experience. Sometimes, it can be less so. It is always best to get much information as possible before you decide.

This leaflet explains the true advantages and disadvantages. It has ten questions you should ask before teaching abroad. It also gives further sources of information.

• Teachers! Are you thinking about teaching abroad?

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Related Documents

• Presentation to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Migration Forum (July 2008)
• Presentation to the African Union on the commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol (June 2008)
• Presentation to the Comparative and International Education Society Conference(CIES), Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA (March 2008)
• Third Commonwealth Teacher Research Symposium Report on “Gender, HIV/AIDS and the Status of Teachers”, Maputo, Mozambique, (February 2008)
• “The Trade in the Highly Skilled – the Case of the Commonwealth Caribbean” – Presentation to the Institute of Commonwealth Policy Studies (ICPS) (July 2007)
• Presentation to the University of the West Indies Labour and Migration conference on “Migration and Commonwealth Small States – the case of Teachers and Nurses” (May 2007)
• Second Commonwealth Teacher Research Symposium Report on “International Mobility and Migration of Teachers: Brain Gain; Waste or Loss” (March 2007)

Communiqués

• UNESCO-hosted Launch of the Protocol in Nigeria with Education Stakeholders (July 2008)
• West African Meeting of Teaching Service Commissions and Teacher Organizations(June 2008)
• Asia Region Meeting of Teaching Service Commissions and Teacher Organizations(Nov 2007)
• East Africa Region Meeting of Teaching Service Commissions and Teacher Organizations (April 2007)
• Pacific Region Meeting of Teaching Service Commissions and Teacher Organizations (March 2007)

• Letter of agreement between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Commonwealth Secretariat (Oct 2006)
• Presentation to the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Young Teachers Conference, Stoke Rochford, United Kingdom (July 2006)
• Presentation to the International Labour Organization Policy Discussion Forum (Tshwane, South Africa, 2005)