Bright pupils in comprehensive schools are failing to win places at top universities because their teachers do not push them hard enough to achieve the best grades, according to the chief inspector of schools.

Primary teacher Increase Eko is so addicted to learning she spends her weekends doing A-level maths papers. She tells Emily Drabble about her passion for education.

Looking for new ways to show students why the budget and economics matter? Teachers and experts share their ideas with Emily Drabble.

Tiotusentals portugisiska lärare marscherade i Lissabon i lördags för att visa sitt missnöje med planerade nedskärningar i utbildningssektorn. Nedskärningarna ingår i regeringens åtstramningsprogram.

Bright pupils are held back by comprehensives which fail to push them to achieve top grades, chief inspector of schools warns.

To reach its education goals, China will need to "improve quality and creativity," rather than solely focus on producing a large number of college graduates.

Regeringen vil bruge 30 mio. kr. på at undersøge, om tosprogede elever bliver dygtigere, hvis de bruger modersmålet i skolen. »En våd klud i hovedet,« mener K. Verdensklasse, siger Skolerådet.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced plans to implement education reforms in 2014. However, officials say they need the details of her proposals as soon as possible to budget enough money to effectively carry them out.

Plans are under way in France to lengthen the school week by adding a half day of classes on Wednesdays, when schools currently are not in session, while shortening the school days during the rest of the week.

Retirement packages for teachers in Japan will be reduced beginning next month, leading to an increase in the number of teachers retiring before the new system takes effect.

The publication of this year's set of league tables has brought success to two very different schools.

Almost 110,000 of the brightest schoolchildren finished compulsory education last summer without gaining a string of good GCSEs in core subjects, official league tables show.