The failure of US public schools to thoroughly prepare their students for a globalised world is undermining American national security, a blue-ribbon task force warned on Tuesday.

Almost one million pupils do not have English as first language at home.

Almost 75,000 children have been rejected from their preferred secondary school amid a desperate scramble for the most sought-after places, official figures show.

På fredagen den 30 mars kommer 12 elever och 2 ledare från London för att besöka Köping och Ullvigymnasiet. Besöket är i första hand ett idrottsutbyte men klockan 13 spelas det en match mellan eleverna från Davenant Foundation School och elever från specialidrotten med inriktning fotboll, årskurs 2 på Ullvigymnasiet, på Krillans konstgräs.

What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather gnomic answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know. To put it in more straightforward terms, anytime a student learns, he or she has to bring in two kinds of prior knowledge: knowledge about the…

More than a third of head teachers are to quit the classroom over Coalition reforms to education, according to research.

The Church of England sets out its vision for its role in education over the coming decade, saying it expects to create more schools under its banner.

Skule. Vil det følgje med pengar til innkjøp av nye læremiddel når den reviderte læreplanen skal setjast ut i livet?

Schools will be allowed to delay the National 4 and 5 exams, due to replace Standard Grades, for a year, the Scottish government agrees.

The chancellor should use the Budget to promote policies that will benefit children and young people, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers says.

Den 23-24 mars går den nationella finalen i Wallenbergs fysikpris av stapeln vid Umeå universitet. På plats finns då 11 gymnasister som tävlar om platser i den internationella fysikolympiaden i Tartuu, Estland i juli.

Treasury secretary Gabriel Makhlouf has angered the primary teachers' union by suggesting money saved on a small rise in class sizes could be spent on improving the quality of teachers, which was far more important.