En bil lastad med sprängmedel exploderade på söndagen nära en grundskola i staden Um al-Ahmad i provinsen Homs östra del, rapporterar statliga syriska nyhetsbyrån Sana.

19 elever på en grundskola i Kina har lagts in på sjukhus efter att ha druckit yoghurt som misstänks ha varit spetsad med råttgift och ogräsmedel, rapporterar nyhetsbyrån Nya Kina. 

Ett nytt avtal mellan UR, Copyswede och SUF ger nya möjligheter för elever och lärare på svenska utlandsskolor och skolföreningar runt om i världen. 

Around one in three (32 percent) professional parents with children aged 5 to 16 has moved to an area which they thought had good schools, and 18 percent have moved to live in the catchment area of a specific school, according to a new Sutton Trust report, Parent Power?

Sutton Trust suggests that popular state schools should use lotteries to allocate places.

Gymnasieelever betaler universitetsstuderende flere tusinde kroner for at skrive opgaver for dem, så de kan få bedre karakterer, fortæller Danske Gymnasieelevers Sammenslutning.

A teacher shortage has hindered the teaching of foreign languages to K-12 and vocational school students in accordance with a government instruction in effect for almost half a decade, educators complained Thursday at a conference on foreign language teaching in central Vietnam.

Jaime A. FlorCruz in this commentary writes about an experience with the Teach For All global network that highlighted the pros and cons of China's evolving education system.

Leaders in Brazil seek to reform education.

The late Nelson Mandela sought to improve education in South Africa as he led the country from apartheid to democracy. The country's schools, however, are languishing in international rankings and reportedly are plagued by inadequate infrastructure, corruption and a questionable funding system.

While students in Shanghai topped the recent Programme for International Student Assessment in reading, maths and science, data show that the success of the city's students is not indicative of that of the overall student population.

Samtidigt som Sverige rasat på världsrankingen i de så kallade Pisa-testen så har grannen på andra sidan Östersjön gjort en drömresa uppåt och är nu i toppen bredvid länder som Finland.