Radio season Teachers in Africa

	Children in southern Sudan are eager to learn but the facilities are just not available

In fact the schools system is in such a bad state that more than two years after signing a peace deal in southern Sudan the talk is of starting from scratch rather than rebuilding.

Lewis Machipisa joined a class under a tree in Rumbek in southern Sudan.

Lewis's report

Room for improvement

Will Nigeria be able to attain UPE by 2015? And what base is the country working from?

	Low pay and little respect are hampering teacher recruitment

Dilapidated schools and a perceived lack of prestige in the teaching profession are giving Nigerian education professionals plenty of homework.

Our correspondent Fidelis Mbah visited a public primary school in Lagos to assess the state of schooling and find out what it is like to be a teacher in Nigeria today.

Fidelis's report

Language of learning

In Zambia a new policy to teach the first two years of school in the local languages of the different regions of the country has been put in place.

	There are concerns that teaching in English will erode children's knowledge of their mother tongues

Mother tongue education is being introduced even though the official language of the country is English.

Musonda Chibamba has been finding out how the policy is being implemented in a country where there are 73 different groups.

Musonda's report

Primary numbers

Universal Primary Education was introduced in Uganda ten years ago.

Since then children from poor families have been able to get their education either for free or at a reduced fee at certain schools throughout the country.

	Ugandan teachers have to contend with low wages and large classes

The result is more than double the number of children receiving basic instruction.

For the Teachers in Africa radio season Sarah Grainger investigates how the schools system is coping with the increasing demand and asks what the teachers can do to keep up with the numbers of children hungry for learning?

She spent the morning at Nakasero Primary School in Kampala to find out.

Sarah's report