Teachers are trained in about ninety institutions, including ten teacher-training universities, twelve pedagogical departments at different universities, two educational management colleges, and forty-five junior teacher-training colleges.

Junior teacher-training colleges offer short-term cycle training programmes lasting three years for lower secondary teachers. Secondary school teachers are trained at the university level (four- to five-year programmes).

In-service training is compulsory for all teachers. Each year, forty-five days during the summer vacation are usually spent on in-service training activities. The government encourages teachers to upgrade their qualifications, and when they do so they usually get a new level of salary.