ABSTRACT
The international context of an efficient, appropriate and sustained supply of high-quality teachers is one of great concern. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education demands a collaborative approach to teacher supply in their vision for education, which should: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. The term ‘quality’ has been used many times within this book to describe the type of teacher to be ideally recruited or retained in the professional. There are occasions that the authors acknowledge that this ideal has been superseded by the need to simply have an adult in the classroom. A change in government attitude towards teaching could potentially lead to an essential societal shift towards the role as a career. In China, teachers who followed a particular programme are ‘guaranteed basic working and living conditions’.
