the trend of teacher shortage is generally seen across all levels of education but poor countries are particularly focusing their efforts in meeting the goal of universal primary education upe according to the unesco institute for statistics uis among the countries that reported teacher data for countries will have a shortfall and collectively need at least million extra teachers between and to meet the upe goal more than half of these countries or per cent are in subsaharan africa uis given the situation at the initial level of education further levels up to higher education face even greater challenges