Google celebrates World Teacher's Day 2023

The International Labour Organisation (ILO), UNICEF, and Education International (EI) are all partners in organising the day. It honours the anniversary of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation regarding the Status of Teacher's adoption. Standards for teacher's initial and continuing education, recruitment, employment, and working conditions have been established by the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation. It also outlines their rights and obligations. The 1997 Recommendation about the status of teaching staff in higher education was approved, according to UNESCO, to supplement the 1966 Recommendation.

It further states that day is to recognise in which teachers are improving education, but it's also a day to consider the support they need to use their skills and vocation to the fullest, and to reconsider the future of the profession on a worldwide scale. October 5 is a day to celebrate how teachers are transforming the education system and to reflect on the support they need to fully deploy their knowledge and vocational skills.The theme of 2023 World Teacher's Day is "The teachers we need for the education we want: The global imperative to reverse the teacher shortage". The 2023 celebrations aims to put the importance of stopping the decline in the number of teachers and then starting to increase that number at the top of the global agenda, UNESCO states. 

In a joint statement by Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General, International Labour Organization, Ms Catherine Russell, Executive Director, UNICEF, Mr David Edwards, General Secretary, Education International, "We call upon countries to ensure that teaching is transformed everywhere into a more attractive and valorised profession where teachers are valued, trusted, and adequately supported to meet the needs of every learner. Bold actions must be taken, if we are to reverse the current decline and successfully increase teacher numbers".