Regnbågsflaggan är i topp när Skottland tar steget och gör undervisning som rör homosexuella, bisexuella, transexuella och intersexuella frågor obligatorisk i statliga skolor.

With 88 countries & regions, this year’s report is our biggest league table to date.

'Children who experience bullying are at higher risk of mental health issues'.

Children want adults to show each other more respect, with four out of 10 (41%) seeing grown-ups bullying each other in the past six months, a survey says.

Thousands of people polled in 35 countries - the new edition of the Index builds the most global picture yet of the status of teachers around the world and its connection to educational outcomes. (pdf)

If teachers want to have high status they should work in classrooms in China, Malaysia or Taiwan, because an international survey suggests these are the countries where teaching is held in the highest public esteem.

Tokyos medicinska universitet, som sade nej till kvinnliga sökande trots att de fått tillräckliga resultat på inträdesproven, kommer nu att erbjuda platserna ändå.

De 78 skolbarn och den chaufför som kidnappats i staden Bamenda i nordvästra Kamerun har släppts, säger en präst som deltar i förhandlingarna. Rektorn och en lärare hålls fortfarande kvar.

Researchers call for preventative work targeting primary school children after analysing data on stabbed teenagers.

Uncomfortable ideas should not be suppressed on campus and students should learn to deal with them through debate, a university regulator says.

A steep rise in vulnerable children needing protection over the past 10 years is pushing council children's services in England into crisis, suggests research to be published tomorrow.

The charity Young Epilepsy says most schools in the UK will have at least one student who has absence seizures and that teachers should be aware that signs can often go unnoticed for many years.