The Critical Future of Lebanon’s Teacher Supply Chain

The Critical Future of Lebanon’s Teacher Supply Chain

A Lebanese pupil looks out of the window as he sits in his empty classroom after coming to collect the books he left before the COVID-19 lockdown, at Our Lady of Lourdes school in the Lebanese city of Zahle, in the central Bekaa region, on June 30, 2020. - Until recently, Lebanon's French-speaking schools, a large majority Catholic, taught 500,000 children -- equivalent to around half of all pupils nationwide. But the country's worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war has left them battling to stay afloat as parents struggle to pay fees, and put French-language education in jeopardy. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)



During the last four years, Lebanon’s education sector has undergone major changes due to the economic crisis, political instability and social challenges which resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic. As teachers became affected by the worsening economic conditions, schools started witnessing the migration of key members of their faculties, which in turn has led to the deterioration of the quality of the education system as a whole. The Lebanese government, along with public and private educational institutions so far have failed to form a sustainable plan to help teachers cope with the crisis, leaving