Having recently emerged from nearly four decades of conflict, everything in South Sudan needs to be built or rebuilt. As the world's newest country, it also has the world's lowest education indicators.

Så många som 28 procent av Sydafrikas skolflickor är hiv-positiva, medan bara 4 procent av skolpojkarna har viruset, enligt landets hälsominister.

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Det er usikkert, hvordan en længere skoledag skal finansieres. Pædagoger og forældre kræver flere penge fra staten.

Under en lockout er der ikke sikret undervisning i folkeskolens specialklasser, ligesom der er i specialskoler

Why do Japanese children learn almost nothing about the war? Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history.

Plans for the first new grammar school to open in England for 50 years are under threat after ministers said the land should be used for a new free school instead.

Från soliga Ibiza till snöiga Sundsvall. En högstadieklass från Spanien besöker just nu elever från Mikael Elias teoretiska gymnasium i Sundsvall. – Det är kallt här. Det snöar aldrig på Ibiza, säger David Gimeno, en av besökarna.

In Thailand, officials plan to reduce instructional time and reform school curriculum to include a focus on project-based learning. Officials say they are about six months away from finalising details of the plan. Currently, secondary-school students in Thailand have about 1,200 instructional hours each school year, and primary-school students have about 1,000.

“Those who deny women and girls their right to education, violate Islam,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told an audience at the world body on Monday. He said the religion was for all men and women without discrimination.

Cirka halvdelen af de tyske skoler er heldagsskoler. Effekten er god især for ressourcesvage og elever af anden etnisk herkomst. Især svage elever har gavn af mere tid, men eleverne skal være engagerede for at få stor gavn af flere timer.

Some primary and high schools in China are working to adjust to a new policy, to take effect 19 March, that limits the amount of homework students can be assigned, eliminates midterm exams and bans the use of exam rankings, among other things.