More students from white working class backgrounds are to be targeted in a university recruitment drive.

Researchers say people with at least a high school education and healthier lifestyles are aiding a decline in new cases, or staving off dementia longer.

En pojke har knivskurits på Edsbergsskolan i Sollentuna kommun. En machete eller en kniv ska ha använts i attacken.

Officials in China are aggressively recruiting more male teachers in an effort to promote masculinity among male students. In China, four out of five teachers in urban areas are female, a 2012 study by Beijing Normal University found.

A first-grade class in Bosnia has learned sign language to communicate with a classmate who is deaf. Educators say the effort has motivated the student and helped boost his self-esteem.

In the refugee camp in eastern Lebanon where Fatima Khaled lives with her two daughters, only three children found a spot in the local school. So when parents found out that Khaled was an educator, they begged her to teach their children.

Germany has Europe's lowest rates of youth unemployment, partly because of its traditional apprenticeship system, which allows young Germans who don't go to university to train and qualify in companies.

Project 10,000 Kids - an initiative of a university-based organisation - provides free lessons in robotics and tech education to students in six cities in Nigeria.

Jo Johnson tells universities to increase access to higher education among poorer white boys and cut dropout rates among black students.

För tio år sedan låg Gottsundskolans betyg 20 procent under kommunsnittet. Numera håller skolans elever jämna steg med resten av Uppsala.

Vi vet att skolans ledarskap är avgörande för skolans resultat. Vi är förvissade om att ni delar vår uppfattning, men då måste våra medlemmar få ett bra resultat i årets lönerevision. Arbetsgivarna i Blekinge län måste prioritera skolledarna nu, skriver Nils Andersson och Matz Nilsson, Sveriges Skolledarförbund.

Mer eller mindre segregerade skolor finns inte bara i Malmö – de finns även i Örnsköldsvik. Det vill kommunen råda bot på genom att skapa en helt ny, integrerad högstadieskola.