The letter by Dr Heinz-Dieter Meyer and other academics (OECD and Pisa tests are damaging education worldwide – academics The Guardian 6 May) makes a series of false claims regarding the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Pisa programme, writes Andreas Schleicher, Acting director of education, OECD.

Høgskolen Stord-Haugesund beskriver bare sin profil som «tidsriktig». Rektor mener de må beholde dagens fagsammensetning.

Carson, Calif., wants to make it illegal to bully anyone from kindergarten up to age 25, sometimes holding parents of suspected bullies responsible and making therapy part of the solution.

The Learning Curve report 2014 ranks the UK as the sixth best education system in the world, but warns that pupils in Western countries are lagging behind those in the Far East because of lack of motivation from parents.

Global education rankings, which include higher education as well a international school tests, are headed by South Korea, with the UK in sixth place.

The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) warn that rising numbers of private schools are concerned at political meddling in the exams system.

Guardian survey shows heavy workloads to blame for mental health problems among academics.

Åtal har väckts mot två personer som planerade en attack mot Helsingfors universitet.

A decline in the number of high-school students is among several factors driving continued declines in the number of students in Beijing applying for China's national college-entrance examination, known as gaokao.

There are plans underway in China to make the country's annual physical-fitness tests for students part of entrance exams for colleges. The exams measure students' height, weight, lung capacity and abilities in 50-meter and 100-meter races, as well as their ability to complete sit-ups and pull-ups.

83 professorer og skoleledere fra hele verden fortviler over at den internasjonale skoletesten får stadig mer innflytelse.

India has no strategy for technology in the classroom, but entrepreneurs and nonprofits are braving the odds in the sector.