En offentlig grundskola i Tokyo har fått ögonen på sig efter att skolledningen beslutat att införa skoluniformer designade av det italienska lyxmärket Armani.

116 privatskoler er blitt godkjent under de fire første årene med borgerlig regjering, mot 103 skoler i løpet av åtte år med rødgrønn regjering.

"Some of the things I did as a teenager, I think, 'What the hell were you doing? Why did you do that? Why did you let this person take advantage of you?'" Christina fell pregnant when she was just 14. Reflecting on her teenage experiences, she says she wishes she had been more confident about saying…

A survey of UK head teachers has found that nearly half are struggling to get mental health support for their pupils.

Parents at Tokyo’s Taimei primary school worry expensive uniforms send wrong message to students.

Föräldrar till skolbarn i Costa Rica har satt hänglås på 20 skolor i protest mot sexualundervisningen för tonåringar. Ett rykte går att undervisningen främjar homosexualitet, uppger landets utbildningsdepartement.

Et muslimsk gymnasium og en friskole er sat under skærpet tilsyn af Styrelsen for Undervisning og Kvalitet.

For mange lærere er udsat for vold på landets skoler. Undervisningsministeriet er nu klar med vejledning.

'The education system is buckling under the weight of funding cuts, which are driving away staff who haven't already lost their jobs, and jeopardising our children's future'.

Children should sit more exams at a younger age as an antidote for exam pressure, the Schools Minister has said.

School programmes encouraging children to take more exercise and eat healthily are unlikely to have any real effect on childhood obesity, a study in the British Medical Journal suggests.

Researchers say much wider action is needed after a major programme in primary schools in the West Midlands was shown to have made no difference to obesity levels.