The global solution to the teacher shortage crisis

Big idea, real impact.

According to UNESCO there will be a worldwide shortfall of 69 million teachers by 2030.

nvoco’s Global Teacher Programme provides a complete pathway to train, qualify, deploy, and support teachers globally at scale.

We believe, solving the global teacher shortage is a critical social challenge as much as an economic one. nvoco exists to widen access to high-quality teaching, strengthen local education systems, and create sustainable career pathways for teachers in high-need regions.

The challenge

Education systems across the world are under growing pressure from teacher shortages. These shortages are most acute in:

  • STEM subjects

  • Rapidly expanding school systems

  • Regions experiencing demographic change, curriculum reform or workforce attrition

At the same time, millions of graduates around the world leave universities each year with strong academic foundations and a desire for meaningful work, but limited access to high-quality teacher training or internationally recognised routes into teaching. For many, the profession remains fragmented and insufficiently supported as a
long-term career.

Current approaches tend to address symptoms rather than systems:

  • Recruitment initiatives are often reactive

  • Training routes vary widely in quality and recognition

  • Deployment is disconnected from preparation

  • Ongoing professional development and retention support are inconsistent

The result is a global mismatch:
schools struggle to recruit and retain teachers, while capable potential teachers struggle to access clear, supported pathways into the classroom.

Who is nvoco for?

  • nvoco provides school groups with a dependable pipeline of well-prepared teachers who are trained with deployment in mind. Rather than managing fragmented recruitment across regions and subjects, partners gain access to a coordinated, quality-assured workforce solution. Teachers arrive classroom-ready, culturally prepared and supported beyond placement, improving stability, performance and retention across schools.

  • nvoco supports governments to address teacher shortages strategically rather than reactively. Our model enables workforce planning at scale, improves quality and consistency across training routes, and strengthens retention through structured professional support. By connecting global talent to national priorities, nvoco helps schools expand capacity while maintaining standards, accountability and long-term sustainability.

  • nvoco partners with training providers to extend reach, impact and relevance. We support high-quality, accredited programmes by aligning recruitment, preparation and deployment, ensuring trainees progress into real teaching roles. This creates stronger outcomes for graduates, enhances programme credibility and supports innovation in international teacher education.

  • nvoco offers recruiters a system-level solution that moves beyond transactional placement. By embedding recruitment within a full teacher lifecycle model, partners benefit from improved candidate quality, clearer pathways and higher retention. This reduces churn, strengthens employer relationships and creates long-term value across education markets.

  • nvoco collaborates with organisations that share a commitment to professionalisation, scale and system change. Whether through platform development, research, data, wellbeing or specialist services, partners contribute to — and benefit from — a growing global ecosystem focused on teacher quality and sustainability. Together, we build infrastructure that individual organisations cannot achieve alone.

Work with us

The nvoco model

Train local. Teach global.

nvoco is building the global infrastructure needed to address chronic teacher shortages and poor retention across education systems worldwide. We bring together education expertise, operational delivery, and technology to create clear, supported pathways into teaching that extend beyond first placement. Through long-term university and school partnerships, we invest in quality, professional growth, and retention, strengthening education systems while enabling teachers to build meaningful, lasting careers. This is our contribution to the future of teaching, practical, human, and built to last.

Regional training hubs

nvoco operates through regional training hubs, combining in-person delivery with digital learning to ensure quality, credibility, and cultural relevance. Training cannot be fully online. Teachers are trained, assessed, and supported locally through partnerships between international universities and trusted regional institutions.

Doing well, doing good.

nvoco is explicit about doing good and doing well by designing a model where social impact and commercial sustainability are deliberately aligned. Its work addresses a critical global challenge, and by working in partnership with NGOs, governments and education providers, we create employment and purpose for displaced and under-employed graduates.

Doing good

  • Expands access to high-quality teaching in underserved regions

  • Builds local training capacity through university partnerships

  • Creates long-term professional pathways for teachers

  • Improves retention, quality, and learner outcomes

Doing well

  • Recurring revenue from schools, governments, and institutions

  • Scalable regional hubs with predictable demand

  • Accredited, repeatable delivery model

  • Strong alignment with public and philanthropic funding priorities

The Global Teacher Programme

Deploy

nvoco operates a scalable hub-and-spoke deployment model connecting qualified teachers to schools, education systems and government partners worldwide.

Deployment is demand-led and partnership-driven:

  • Schools and systems gain access to a reliable pipeline of well-prepared teachers

  • Teachers gain clear placement pathways, transparent expectations and structured onboarding

The model supports longer-term career pathways, aligned to system needs and teacher aspirations.

Integrated training

nvoco’s integrated training and deployment pathway brings together assessment, qualification, language development, cultural preparation, and long-term professional support into a single, coherent journey.

  • Core competency review and benchmarking

  • Induction camps in regional hubs

  • AI enabled personalised learning and CPD

  • Subject knowledge enhancement

  • ELITE English language training

  • Pre-deployment alignment training

  • In country support and success coaching

  • Global teacher community platform

Recruit

nvoco identifies high-potential graduates and career-changers with the capability, motivation and values required for teaching.

Recruitment focuses on:

  • Strong academic foundations

  • Communication and interpersonal skills

  • Adaptability and cultural readiness

  • A genuine commitment to education

Candidates are assessed through academic screening, aptitude evaluation and structured interviews. By recruiting in regions with strong graduate pipelines and limited local teaching opportunities, nvoco unlocks global talent while expanding access to the profession.

Support

Teacher success depends on sustained, high-quality support. nvoco provides ongoing professional development, mentoring and coaching throughout a teacher’s career journey.

Support includes:

  • Instructional coaching and performance feedback from nvoco Success Coaches.

  • Wellbeing and retention support

  • Access to a global professional community

Data-informed monitoring enables early identification of challenges and targeted intervention. This focus on retention and professional growth improves outcomes for teachers, schools and students alike.

All stages of the nvoco model are connected through an AI-enabled learning and support platform.

The platform integrates recruitment data, training progress, deployment information and ongoing professional development into a single system. It enables:

  • Personalised learning pathways

  • Performance tracking and quality assurance

  • Community engagement at scale

Technology provides consistency, transparency and continuous improvement across the entire ecosystem.

Qualify

Selected candidates progress through accredited teacher education pathways delivered in partnership with universities and training providers.

Programmes combine:

  • Subject knowledge and pedagogy

  • Classroom practice and assessment

  • Alignment with international standards

Alongside formal qualifications, teachers receive structured language development, cultural preparation and professional readiness training tailored to their destination context. This ensures teachers arrive classroom-ready — academically, professionally and culturally.

AI supported learning

Recruitment and retention challenges are undermining education systems worldwide.

Source: International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030

Why nvoco?

nvoco will transform teaching into a global profession, using technology to create a global community of teachers, trained with enhanced subject knowledge and curriculum alignment, appropriate language skills and continuing professional development, deployed to work in countries with acute teacher shortages.

  • Teachers gain recognised pathways and sustained careers.

  • Schools gain stable, well-prepared staff.

  • Education systems gain resilience rather than churn.

This alignment is what makes the model commercially sustainable.

  • Schools pay for reliability and retention.

  • Teachers commit because they are supported.

  • Partners engage because the outcomes endure.

The nvoco team

Impact is not a
by-product of nvoco’s growth. It is the reason growth is possible.

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