• AFTRA is an intergovernmental organisation comprising the national agencies regulating teaching in the 54 African countries. AFTRA leads policy development and implementation for the professionalization of teaching in Africa.

    In pursuit of its mandates, AFTRA also functions as member of other continental and global bodies on teachers including the African Union’s Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 2016-2025) Teacher Development Cluster; and, the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030. AFTRA also collaborates with UNESCO Regional offices, UNESCO-IICBA, Education International and others.

    The national laws that established member organisations of AFTRA empower them to register and license teachers, set standards for pre-service and on-going teacher professional development, develop and implement teacher professional code of ethics and standards for teachers and school leaders, and work generally to promote the professional status of teachers. AFTRA therefore is working to translate these mandates to continental frameworks to facilitate exchange of best practices, teacher mobility, and quality teaching and learning throughout Africa to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Education) and CESA 2016-2025.

  • The Australasian Teacher Regulatory Authorities group consists of teacher regulatory authorities from the Australian States and Territories, and New Zealand.

  • SPTRB serves the public interest by ensuring registered teachers meet professional standards for certification, conduct and competence. With the proclamation of the Registered Teachers Act on July 1, 2015 the government of Saskatchewan granted the teachers of Saskatchewan the privilege of becoming a self-regulating profession.

  • The Ontario College of Teachers licenses, governs and regulates the Ontario teaching profession in the public interest.

  • The Teaching Council in Iceland (kennararáð) provides advice on the development of a competency framework, on the professional development of teachers and administrators and on the evaluation of teachers’ specialisation in the context of recruitment. The Council promotes awareness of the societal importance of the teaching profession. The Minister of Education, Science and Culture appoints eleven members to the Teaching Council for a four-year term.

  • The Teaching Council is the professional standards body for the teaching profession, which promotes and regulates professional standards in teaching. It acts in the interests of the public good while upholding and enhancing standards in the teaching profession.

  • The Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 allocates the following functions to the General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland (GTCNI/the Council): the establishment and maintenance of a register of teacher, the approval of qualifications for the purposes of registration and regulatory functions relating to unprofessional conduct and serious professional misconduct.

  • The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) is the teaching profession’s independent registration and regulation body. It is a legal requirement for all teachers in Scottish schools to be registered. The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTC Scotland) was one of the first teaching councils in the world when it was set up in 1965. In 2012, legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament made it the world’s first independent, self-regulating body for teaching.

  • The Education Workforce Council (EWC) is the independent, professional regulator for the education workforce in Wales. The work of the Council covers teachers and learning support staff in school and further education settings, qualified youth/youth support workers, and work-based learning practitioners.

  • We are the professional organisation for teachers. We represent all teachers from early childhood education through to primary and secondary schooling in English and Māori medium schools. We promote all that’s best about teaching; good practice, new ideas, inspirational leadership.