A new global study has revealed, that when it comes to taking up teaching as a career, Indians are the most positive.
On Thursday, i.e. November 8, 2018, a UK- based Varkey Foundation’s ‘Global Teacher Status Index (GTSI) 2018’ was released.
It is becoming to be known as the most comprehensive study of how society views teachers across 35 countries around the world.
According to its report, 54 per cent of Indian people polled said they encourage their children to become teachers, which is more than half of the Indians.
This number is more than any other country surveyed, including China, which had 50 per cent.
Under a quarter of British people i.e. 23 percent would encourage their children to become a teacher, while of we look at Russia its the lowest of all the countries surveyed, only 6 per cent would encourage their children to become a teacher.
Among the 35 countries surveyed in the ‘Global Teachers Status Index 2018’, the overall rank of India is eighth. According to this survey, China is the highest ranked country and Brazil is the lowest.
As measured by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores, the Index revealed, that there is a direct link between teacher status and pupil performance, for the first time.
Indian origin entrepreneur and philanthropist Sunny Varkey , Founder of Varkey Foundation said that “Five years ago, when we conducted the ‘Global Teacher Status Index’, we were alarmed to the low status of teachers around the world by the weight of evidence pointing.
To create the Global Teacher Prize, this is what inspired us, which shines a light on the extraordinary work that teachers do around the world”.
The survey is based on in-depth opinion polling along with the analysis by the Professor Peter Dolton and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research of over 35,000 adults aged between 16 years to 64 years and over 5,500 additional serving teachers across the 35 countries that were surveyed.
The survey even found that over three- quarters i.e. 77 per cent of Indian respondents think that pupils respect their teachers.
India is ranked the third- highest of any country surveyed after Uganda i.e. 79 per cent and China i.e. 81 per cent.
The lowest rank country for this is Brazil, only 9 per cent of people in Brazil thinks pupils respect their teachers.
According to the latest index the teacher status was rising globally and of the 35 countries polled, Asian nations of India, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia and Korea rank higher in terms of teacher status than every European country and every Western nation – including the US, New Zealand and Canada.
