Articles
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1 October 2025 West Africa – Investing in Teachers and School Leaders: Professional Standards, Working Conditions, and Teacher Education
This document outlines a study conducted by UNESCO IICBA on the state of teacher professionalism in West Africa, focusing on professional standards, teacher education, and working conditions. It emphasizes the urgent need for countries to adopt and implement professional standards and competencies for teachers and school leaders. It highlights how...
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30 June 2025 
Not the exception, but essential: Teachers with disabilities in mainstream classrooms
Worlds of EducationWhere are the teachers with disabilities in our classrooms? A question I often ask my audience is: “How many of you were taught by a teacher who identified as having a disability during your school years?” In a room of 50–60 people, usually only one or two hands go up.
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3 April 2024 
Sierra Leone: Teachers mobilise to elevate the profession through the Go Public! Fund Education campaign
NewsThe Sierra Leone Teachers Union (SLTU) is on a mission to transform the landscape of education in their country. During a recent two-day Go Public! Fund Education national planning meeting, SLTU leaders rallied around a shared vision: to elevate the status of teachers and secure better working conditions.
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19 March 2024 
Sierra Leone: Teachers mobilise to elevate the profession through the Go Public! Fund Education campaign
NewsThe Sierra Leone Teachers Union (SLTU) is on a mission to transform the landscape of education in their country. During a recent two-day Go Public! Fund Education national planning meeting, SLTU leaders rallied around a shared vision: to elevate the status of teachers and secure better working conditions.
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17 February 2024 
Accra: Teachers’ Unions to Continue Monitoring Education Reforms
NewsEducation International Africa (EIA), in its ongoing efforts to assess progress on union engagement with the Government and the Education Workforce Initiative (EWI), arranged a two-day workshop at the Mensvic Hotel in Accra, Ghana, for its member organisations in Sierra Leone and Ghana. The workshop, with the theme, "Educators United...
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13 October 2023 
Opinion: Career Paths for Teachers and School Leaders: Can Collective Agreements Help?
NewsConrad Sackey is Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education in Sierra Leone. Quentin Wodon is Director of the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (UNESCO IICBA) in Addis Ababa. As we celebrated a few weeks agoWorld Teachers’ Day and the contributions teachers make to our children, communities,...
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Cooperation Projects
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2024 - 2025 Go Public! campaign (Sierra Leone)
The issues that our organization want to address through campaigning are as follows: Track government education budget of 22%; Advocate for promotion, reassessment of salaries and recruitment of more teachers; Government to provide adequate teaching and learning materials to public schools; Government and other partners to build more classrooms due...
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2023 Professional Development Facilitator (PDF) Training for New PDFs
The SLTU must train new Professional Development Facilitators (PDFs) for all regions, to replace those who have left the programme for various reasons, thereby addressing the current shortage of trained PDFs, which are vital to the summer in-service programme. Currently, the SLTU must “borrow” PDFs from neighbouring regions, which increases...
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2023 - 2024 Professional Development Facilitator (PDF) In-School Follow-Up Visits
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the SLTU fell behind in its regular schedule of visits to the regions in order to follow up with all participants who have attended the SLTU’s summer in-service programmes (delivered with financial and technical support from the CTF/FCE). This activity provides an opportunity for all...
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Affiliates
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Sierra Leone Teachers' Union
SLTU
P.O. Box 477Freetowntel: +232 (22) 26.32.53tel: +232 (22) 26.30.42fax: +232 (22) 22.44.39