Enhancing Teacher Professionalism and Status: Promoting Recogition, Registration and Standards

On 23–25 March 2010, the Commonwealth Secretariat in collaboration with the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) convened the Fifth Annual Commonwealth Teachers’ Research Symposium at the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The Symposium is the fifth in a series of research events conducted by the Commonwealth Secretariat since 2006 in direct response to the request of Commonwealth Ministers of Education to undertake research to monitor the status, mobility and recruitment of teachers as presented in the future actions of the Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol (2004). The meeting brought together researchers, officials and representatives of regional and international organisations and higher education institutions, and included delegates from the American Federation of Teachers, CARICOM, the Commonwealth Foundation, the South African Department of Higher Education and Training, Education International, UNESCO, University
of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Melbourne, University of Virginia, University of Witwatersrand and Zayed University.