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Support teachers to achieve Education for All

The Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) research and development Programme was launched at a conference in South Africa in August 2005.

The setting up of the TESSA consortium is the result of over a decade of joint research and development activities focused on the challenge of teacher education. To bring every child into school millions of extra teachers are needed. Millions of existing teachers also need to upgrade their qualifications. High achieving learners at all levels in the school system need quality teaching. The TESSA consortium is an ambitious international initiative to help all forms of teacher education to expand and develop in ways fit for the twenty-first century.

News and Events
TESSA Team
TEAMS Sudan


“Using TESSA resources is the best way to teach science. I have used group discussions which resulted in good responses from my students who have thoroughly understood the lessons. I have found myself as a teacher, so I will adopt it for the rest of my life.” [teacher, Al Jazirah State, Sudan]

To read further about TEAMS Sudan, go to News and Events.


Sudan TEAMS


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"The assumption that teachers are not powerful is one of the biggest fallacies of our society. As a group they have a power which is second to none… It is they, the teachers now at work and going through Training College who are shaping what [the country] will become, much more than we who pass laws, make rules, and make speeches!" - (Nyerere 1972)

How to be Involved
TESSA Team

The TESSA team will welcome approaches from any institution or organization involved with teacher education.

Contact: TESSA team


TESSA Progress report 2005-2007

A report on the TESSA programme to date: Download the PDF (~5MB)


CCEM Interview with TESSA Director

At the December CCEM in Cape Town, the Director of TESSA, Professor Bob Moon, spoke about the TESSA Programme.

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"Ex Africa semper aliquid novi" [out of Africa, always something new] - Pliny the Elder

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