TY - RPRT TI - School Leaders’ Preferences on School Location in Sierra Leone: An individual and school-level study AU - Espinoza-Revollo, Patricia AU - Ramirez, Ana AU - Atherton, Paul AU - Mackintosh, Alasdair AB - Attracting qualified teachers to remote areas is a challenge in Sierra Leone. The pupil-to-qualified-teacher ratio in rural areas is 76:1, rising to 83:1 for schools located more than 15 km away from urban centres — well above the national target of 40:1. As equitable teacher deployment is crucial to ensure high-quality education, the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) aims to increase the deployment of qualified teachers to the most remote areas of the country. This paper describes a quantitative survey of school leaders’ perceptions of what shapes school location preferences and what factors need to be in place (i.e., incentives) to address the imbalanced distribution of qualified teachers in the country. We used data from a text message survey sent to school leaders around the country. This paper accompanies a qualitative inquiry on the same topic: What Matters Most for Teacher Deployment? A case study on teacher school choice preferences in Sierra Leone. Together with the qualitative study, our findings aim to address a gap in empirical evidence on teacher school preferences in Sierra Leone and contribute to a growing literature on teachers’ preferences in low- and middle-income countries. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org CN - 0106 DA - 2022/09/30/ PY - 2022 LA - en M3 - Technical Report PB - EdTech Hub UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/MFH269TU KW - _r:AddedByZotZen ER - TY - RPRT TI - Education Workforce Supply and Needs in Sierra Leone AU - Mackintosh, Alasdair AU - Ramirez, Ana AU - Atherton, Paul AU - Collis, Victoria AU - Mason-Sesay, Miriam AU - Bart-Williams, Claudius DA - 2020/08// PY - 2020 DP - Zotero SP - 41 LA - en M3 - Research and Policy Paper PB - the Education Commission; Fab Inc. UR - https://educationcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/3-EW-Supply-and-Needs-Paper.pdf KW - ⛔ No DOI found ER - TY - RPRT TI - School-to-School Mobility Patterns and Retention Rates of Payroll Teachers in Sierra Leone AU - Espinoza-Revollo, Patricia AU - Ali, Yusuf AU - Garrod, Oliver AU - Atherton, Paul AU - Mackintosh, Alisdair AU - Ramirez, Ana AU - Beoku-Betts, Iman AU - Haßler, Björn AB - This report is one of several on the research project on the Impact of GIS-Supported Teacher Allocation in Sierra Leone. Recent studies from this series have shown that being put on the government payroll can incentivise teachers to relocate to remote areas of the country. There is a concern, however, that being put on the payroll does not necessarily ensure the retention of teachers in these areas and that teachers will soon move to locations they consider more favourable. As there is no data on teacher mobility patterns and schools’ teacher retention rates, policies tend to be based on anecdotal evidence. This paper aims to fill this evidence gap by exploring teachers’ school-to-school mobility trends and retention rates using the Annual School Census (ASC) data from 2015 to 2021. Using data on teachers’ individual characteristics, as well as geospatial location data of each school, the paper explores whether mobility patterns vary by teachers’ gender or qualifications and whether the teaching workforce is urbanising. While studies have looked at teacher retention, this study is the first in a low-income country to use school census data to create a panel dataset to study teachers’ movements and school retention rates over time. Keywords: teacher mobility; teacher retention rates; mobility patterns; teacher deployment; Sierra Leone; education An output of the EdTech Hub https://edtechhub.org CN - 0143 DA - 2023/// PY - 2023 LA - en M3 - Working Paper PB - EdTech Hub SN - 48 UR - https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/DE7XUSMJ KW - _r:AddedByZotZen ER - TY - BLOG TI - How Sierra Leone is betting on data to fight the impact of climate change on schools AU - Momoh, A AU - Atherton, Paul T2 - Global Partnership for Education AB - Data can significantly improve decision-making and allow for prioritizing interventions to benefit the most vulnerable populations. That’s why the ministry of Education in Sierra Leone is working with Fab Inc. to develop a web-based data tool that helps estimate and prioritize where new schools are really needed. DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 LA - en UR - https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/how-sierra-leone-betting-data-fight-impact-climate-change-schools Y2 - 2022/11/18/15:31:18 ER - TY - RPRT TI - Education Workforce Spatial Analysis in Sierra Leone AU - Mackintosh, Alasdair AU - Ramirez, Ana AU - Atherton, Paul AU - Collis, Victoria AU - Mason-Sesay, Miriam AU - Bart-Williams, Claudius CY - New York, NY DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DP - Zotero SP - 31 LA - en M3 - Research and Policy Paper PB - Education Commission UR - https://educationcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2-EW-Spatial-Analysis-Paper.pdf KW - _yl:a KW - ⛔ No DOI found ER - TY - RPRT TI - Education Workforce Costed Options Paper AU - Mackintosh, Alasdair AU - Ramirez, Ana AU - Atherton, Paul AU - Collis, Victoria AU - Mason-Sesay, Miriam AU - Bart-Williams, Claudius DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DP - Zotero PB - Education Workforce Initiative UR - https://educationcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/5-EW-Costed-Options-Paper.pdf KW - ⛔ No DOI found ER - TY - RPRT TI - Education Workforce Recruitment and Matching in Sierra Leone AU - Mackintosh, Alasdair AU - Ramirez, Ana AU - Atherton, Paul AU - Collis, Victoria AU - Mason-Sesay, Miriam AU - Bart-Williams, Claudius DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DP - Zotero PB - Education Workforce Initiative UR - https://educationcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/4-EW-Recruitment-and-Matching-Paper.pdf KW - _yl:b KW - ⛔ No DOI found ER - TY - RPRT TI - Education Workforce Management in Sierra Leone AU - Mackintosh, Alasdair AU - Ramirez, Ana AU - Atherton, Paul AU - Collis, Victoria AU - Mason-Sesay, Miriam AU - Bart-Williams, Claudius DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DP - Zotero SP - 32 LA - en M3 - Research and Policy Paper PB - Education Commission ER - TY - BLOG TI - Where do teachers go, and where do they stay? AU - Lurvink, Anne-Fleur AU - Espinoza-Revollo, Patricia AU - Ali, Yusuf AU - Garrod, Oliver AU - Atherton, Paul AU - Mackintosh, Alasdair AU - Ramirez, Ana AU - Beoku-Betts, Iman AU - Haßler, Björn AU - Godwin, Katie AU - Godwin, Anne-Fleur Lurvink, Patricia Espinoza-Revollo, Yusuf Ali, Oliver Garrod, Paul Atherton, Alasdair Mackintosh, Ana Ramirez, Iman Beoku-Betts, Björn Haßler and Katie T2 - EdTech Hub AB - In Sierra Leone, a government payroll position is tied to the teacher, not the school, meaning teachers can change schools once they go on the payroll. This leads to certain schools being chronically understaffed. It also suggests that deploying teachers to rural and understaffed schools (or putting teachers already there on payroll) might not tackle high pupil-to-qualified-teacher ratios in the longer term. Investigating the school-to-school movement of payroll teachers can help us understand where teachers go after they go on the payroll and how long they stay in a given school. We also looked at overall movement nationally to identify areas of the country that are outliers in terms of high and low retention of teachers. DA - 2023/03/22/T10:30:33+00:00 PY - 2023 LA - en-US UR - https://edtechhub.org/2023/03/22/where-do-teachers-go-and-where-do-they-stay/ Y2 - 2023/06/27/19:20:21 ER -