Abstract: This study is theoretical and aims at exploring the possible strategies to use in promoting a culture of reading and research in order to strive towards efficiency and effectiveness in school institutions. The study starts off by defining reading and research. It goes on to explain the role of reading and research in the improvement of both the management of schools and the learning and teaching processes. It also suggests examples of strategies which can be adopted by schools in order to improve the culture of Reading and Research in the school management teams, teachers and students. Overall the study can be viewed as food for thought because Reading and Research, though affords one the opportunity to discover new things, in most cases it simply makes one aware of obvious things or facts around oneself that are often taken for granted. This awareness of what could be regarded as the obvious is important because once one is aware of what is around them, one can apply for improvement of the quality of same and hence improve efficiency and effectiveness.