The number of people interested in becoming teachers has risen sharply against the backdrop of the economic crisis, a training agency says.

Starting early opening up the elite schools and rewarding the best teachers are just some of the ways to improve social mobility writes Lee Elliot Major.

Parental background should not be the crucial determinant to how well children do at school and in life says Lee Elliot Major.

More than 1000 children are suspended from school every day for offences that could merit permanent expulsion according to figures published today.

A PE teacher has been sacked from his secondary school for wearing trainers and a tracksuit in lessons.

Behaviour among schoolchildren is deteriorating as "overindulgent" parents create a culture of disrespect according to a study.

Food companies are misleading children and teachers by marketing junk food in schools under the guise of education according to a new report.

Talk about catching them young. The Bird's Evidence, an anthology of 18 short stories, majority of which were written by the students of Government Technical College, Ungoggo, Kano state, delivers on two levels.

At least 1086 new cadres, among them teachers and administrative staff, were admitted in 2008 in the education sector, in the central Huambo Province, through public competition, said the provincial director for the education department, Luísa Ngueve.

A civic education workshop (Itorero) for Rwandan students studying abroad opened yesterday at the Rwanda Military Academy at Gako.

National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie, has said that President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration has no locus standi to accuse ASUU of corruption since the administration came into being through corruption. He was reacting

WHAT are the views of the Government and the opposition on the topic of the week? Sunday Vision pits opposition columnist Wafula Oguttu against the Government representative, Ofwono Opondo.

THE Education ministry is formulating a vocational qualifications framework.

The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof Julius Okojie, has urged Nigerian experts in the Diaspora, to partner with Nigerian Universities in order to improve the country's education sector.

Omatek Ventures Plc and the Obafemi have entered into a partnership that will make all the staff of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife proud owners of personal computers (PCs).

GOVERNMENT alone cannot provide qualitative education for the teeming youths in Gombe State, Gov. Danjuma Goje, has said in Zaria.The governor said this on Saturday during the Annual General Meeting of Zaria Development Association (ZEDA).

THE education sector received the lion share in the 2009 budget of Kaduna State with a total allocation of 27 per cent.

Consumer Vibe has unveiled its portal which primarily focusing on education, and is designed to give equal opportunity to non-merit study scholarship access to quality education worldwide.

Kano Science School Old Students Association (KASSOSA) has commanded the good effort of the Governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, for awarding contracts worth N400 million for the complete renovation of Dawakin Kudu and Dawakin Tofa Science Colleges. Similarly, the association thanked