Tunisia : Teacher Policy
A total of 1,995,167 students (around 96.2 percent of total enrollment) attend public schools in Tunisia. The public school student population is concentrated almost evenly between the primary (50.6 percent) and secondary levels (49.4 percent), and...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/01/18078539/tunisia-teacher-policy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17663 |
Summary: | A total of 1,995,167 students (around
96.2 percent of total enrollment) attend public schools in
Tunisia. The public school student population is
concentrated almost evenly between the primary (50.6
percent) and secondary levels (49.4 percent), and 82.6
percent of the total number of students attend schools in
urban areas. Around 3.9 percent of enrolled students attend
private schools (all of which are private, government-
independent schools). All private schools are located in
urban areas, principally serving secondary school students.
Tunisia does have in place a mandatory probationary period
prior to awarding open-ended status to new teachers. This
may help in facilitating the dismissal of weak and
unmotivated teachers earlier on, before they become
permanent staff and part of the civil service. The first
years of teaching are among the best available predictors of
a teacher's performance later on. Therefore, it is
positive to have in place screening processes to dismiss
low-performing teacher entrants. In Tunisia, this screening
process to gain open-ended status involves being assessed on
performance. Once a teacher holds an open-ended appointment,
the results of the performance evaluation process may be
used in dismissing a teacher based on his/her performance.
However, given the fact that data on the extent of teacher
under-performance and rates of dismissal are unavailable, it
is not possible to ascertain the extent to which ineffective
teachers are removed in practice. |
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