By NICOLA JUNCAR BUDDING pilots and cabin crew staff from the North East can give their careers a flying start, as an aviation academy takes off in our region.

By PHIL CORRIGAN Gifted and talented youngsters are being challenged to stretch their abilities on a new college programme. One dozen Year 10 pupils from three high schools in Newcastle have been invited to take part in Newcastle College's Master Class scheme.

By CATHERINE SHANKS WHEN Billy Nugent went to his first school, hi-tech teaching aids were inkwells, slates and chalk and Jamie Oliver would have fainted if he'd seen what was for lunch.

By Iain Laing PLANS to forge a new generation of world class engineers in the North-East have been given a pounds 1.7m boost.

EDUCATION chiefs in the region have launched a new school to fill thousands of hitech jobs in the city with North-East youngsters. Newcastle College has created a new School of Applied Science.