The participants from the provinces and Federal Government evolved a number of recommendations to push forward accreditation of teacher education programmes and certification and licensing of teachers in the country.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

After these teaching students in Massachusetts scored so poorly on their certification test, one would-be teacher made the absurd comment that there must obviously be something wrong with the test -- not with those taking it.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

State licensing laws mindlessly emphasize time spent -- usually years -- taking teacher-education courses, yet there is little correlation between certification requirements and effectiveness in the classroom.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Now, certification can be an important measure of the quality of the teacher, and obviously we want teachers to be well qualified.

WHITEHOUSE: Fixing No Child Left Behind

Students work on certification as Unix system administrators, and Sun helps with curriculum design, offers teacher internships and sets up computer labs, says Leslie Bowers, Sun's enterprise network services workforce program manager in Milpitas, Calif.

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