This report summarizes the analysis of major issues affecting the current status of teaching personnel worldwide at all levels of education by the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART). Key issues include: Social dialogue in education; Teacher education - initial and continuing; Employment and careers, teacher salaries, including teacher compensation in fragile states, and teaching and learning conditions; Teacher shortages in the framework of Education for All (EFA), including financing and recruitment challenges, impact of HIV and AIDS on the profession, and recruitment and retention of female teachers; Academic freedom and institutional autonomy in higher education; Higher education terms and conditions of employment: Impact of private and for-profit providers of post-secondary education.