Radio season Teachers in Africa

	Alice Lander and Freddie Boswell will produce the BBC's teacher swap

Alice Lander and Freddie Boswell from BBC African News and Current Affairs will be accompanying two teachers on a teacher swap between primary schools in East and West Africa.

Producer Alice Lander will be at Nairobi airport to meet primary school teacher, Mr David Asante off the flight from Ghana.

The two of them will then travel to Kerarapon Primary School in the Ngong Hills, outside the Kenyan capital, where David will be spend a week in the place of the Ghana-bound Mrs Alice Omondi.

In turn, Mrs Omondi will meet up with BBC producer Freddie Boswell in Ghana and she will take up Mr Asante's position in Somanya Presbyterian Primary School located about an hour's drive from the capital Accra in the Eastern Region of the country.

East vs West

On Focus and Network programmes throughout the week, the two teachers will consider how their new surroundings compare with school life back home.

How are teachers regarded by the community? What are the differences in teaching resources between the two countries? How technologically up-to-date are the schools that they are in?

Did you know? Of all the children in the world not attending school, over half live in sub-Saharan Africa UNESCO 2007

What will Mr Asante and Mrs Omondi be able to take back to their respective schools that they have drawn from the experience?

From around Africa

BBC reporters elsewhere on the continent will be filing special features about teaching in their countries.

From Nigeria: Fidelis Mbah will report on the role and profile of primary school teachers. Is it an attractive career option for young Nigerians?

From Sudan: How is the south of the country dealing with rebuilding a primary education system shattered by the 20 year civil war? Lewis Machipisa travels to the area to find out.

From Uganda: In a country which is often flagged as home to exemplary primary education, Sarah Grainger asks if this is the reality in Uganda's schools?

From Zambia: Musonda Chibamba investigates the teaching of the English language in the country's primary schools.

This radio season is part of a larger BBC Wold Service Trust and Open University (UK) initiative to improve teacher education on the continent.

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