An adequate provision of teachers can be limited by different factors. The following pages deal with some of the most common root causes:
- Recruitment of new teachers fails due to:
- Inadequate monetary and non-monetary incentives.
* For more on this subject, consult Policy page Teacher benefits - A lack of appropriate candidates entering the teaching profession.
* For more on this subject, consult Policy page Appropriate candidates
- Inadequate monetary and non-monetary incentives.
- The country, or regions within the country, have teacher gaps due to high attrition rates or ineffective distribution of teachers to certain regions, despite sufficient number of trained teachers overall.
* For more on this subject, consult Policy page Teachers deployment and retention
- Difficulty to finance new teaching positions and shortage in education budgets:
- Due to logistic constraints
* For more on this subject, consult Policy page Logistic constraints in paying teachers - Due to financial constraints
* For more on this subject, consult Policy page Financial constraints
- Due to logistic constraints