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Summary Take a stand for teachers is the slogan of World Teachers Day 2012 (5 October).
The Ministry of Education and Training is organising a special function titled Salam Teacher Day in Islamabad to mark World Teachers day on Friday.UNESCO Islamabad has also organized a series of events to mark the day.Taking a stand for the teaching profession means providing adequate training, ongoing professional development, and protection for teachers’ rights.All over the world, a quality education offers hope and the promise of a better standard of living. However, there can be no quality education without competent and motivated teachers.Teachers are among the many factors that keep children in school and influence learning. They help students think critically, process information from several sources, work cooperatively, tackle problems and make informed choices. Why take a stand for teachers? Because the profession is losing status in many parts of the world.. World Teachers’ Day calls attention the need to raise the status of the profession - not only for the benefit of teachers and students, but for society as a whole, to acknowledge the crucial role teachers play in building the future. At UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, the focus of the 2012 World Teachers’ Day celebration will be on how to attract top graduates to teaching and how to raise the status of teachers. Partners are also urged to organize events around the world in order to make the day a truly international celebration. On the occasion, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in their messages said that the present democratic government has undertaken far reaching steps to improve lot of the teachers.UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon in his message said that no education system is better than its teachers.He said the world needs about 2 million more teachers to achieve Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015.
