At the whiff of a threat, a generation growing up in the shadow of Columbine and Sandy Hook is trained to snap off the lights, lock the doors and take refuge in corners and closets.

Elizabeth Truss, the Education Minister, has encouraged more parents to buy their daughters Lego as she warns gender-specific toys may be discouraging girls from taking subjects including maths and science.

National Audit Office says department's accounts show 'error and uncertainty' due to insufficient oversight of academies.

Læreren må vite i hvilke deler av timen han skal bruke digitale verktøy, og være tydelig på når elevene skal legge bort utstyret, skriver Vibeke Kløvstad og Trond Ingebretsen.

The Coalition says schools should restrict the amount of time teachers spend out of the classroom conducting union duties amid claims the move costs the taxpayers millions of pounds a year.

From British pupils focusing on the trenches to Polish students studying the paintings of Otto Dix, history lessons on the war often seem to have little in common.

Boosting skills and access are the aims of a new Portuguese-medium platform.

David Laws, the Schools Minister, says the best head teachers will be offered more pay to work in the toughest primaries and secondaries amid concerns over standards.

Teachers are defeated by a lack of training and support - and by classrooms in which discipline is a foreign concept.

Sir Michael Wilshaw says many new recruits leave profession because of poor training and not enough support.

Labour's Tristram Hunt says that improving schools is about the quality of teachers and not structural change.

Ett 20-tal skolbarn omkom i en bussolycka i Pakistan på onsdagen då en privat skolbuss frontalkrockade med en tungt lastad lastbil, enligt myndigheter.