World Teachers’ Day was created in 1994 to honor the signing of the Recommendation on the Status of Teachers, which was drafted in Paris on October 5, 1966. Today is World Teachers’ Day. According to Unicef, teachers are essential to providing high-quality education, but the sector is nevertheless beset by underfunding and a decline in enrollment. The United Nations Children’s Fund reported in 2024 that only 31% of nations have structures in place for effective teacher professional development, which is less than half of the 64% target.
Official Development Assistance (ODA) for education will drop by USD 3.2 billion, a 24% drop from 2023, according to Unicef. The global number of children who are not in school would rise from 272 million to 278 million as a result of this decline.
According to Unicef, 234 million children require assistance in order to receive a high-quality education, a rise of 35 million over the previous three years. Of these 234 million kids, 85 million don’t go to school at all. Of them, 52% are girls, 17% are internally displaced people or refugees, and more than 20% have impairments.
The situation is especially bad in Gaza, where 1,466,000 youngsters were having trouble getting an education as of July 2025. 588 educational buildings were impacted by June 2025, with 538 (95.4%) of those affected in the Gaza Strip and an additional 50 in the West Bank.
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