Pakistan has launched a Global Action Week focused on the need for every student to have access to a trained and qualified teacher and also on the need for parents to send their children to school.

Pakistan lags behind many of its neighbours in literacy, with 56% of its population able to read and write, according to Unesco.

Australia is reacting to reports issued last year that the country's schools were not doing enough to serve the brightest students.

Holländsk polis har släppt den elev som greps i måndags, misstänkt för att ha hotat att skjuta sin lärare och elever på en skola i Leiden. Enligt polisen är han inte längre misstänkt för något brott.

As teachers and educationalists call for change, Wendy Berliner, remembers the first education 'spring' of 1976 and examines its impact on the current schooling system.

Særlig faglig svake elever gruer seg til nasjonale prøver.

The working hours of both teachers and MPs have both come under attack this week, but who really works the most hours?

One in five parents, rising to one in three in cities, feels they cannot access a good school in their local area, a survey by a right of centre think-tank has found.

Schools in some of Britain's wealthiest regions are failing children from disadvantaged homes, who are achieving better exam results in deprived areas, the Schools minister has said.

Two recent cases show that headteachers can't always be relied upon to protect children from abuse in school. Now campaigners are calling for urgent changes to the law.

Danska klassrum ekar tomma och elever känner sig som en gisslan i lärarkonflikten – efter tre veckor utan undervisning hotas deras slutprov i avgångsklasserna.

Den danska lärarlockouten fortsätter. Nära 70 000 lärare i grundskolan och i en del andra skolformer är lockoutade av arbetsgivaren från sina skolor sedan den 2 april. 875 000 elever står utan undervisning.