Facing different but equally harrowing crises, parents and educators in the United States and northeast Nigeria are debating similarly drastic measures to improve school safety as a painful public reckoning plays out in both countries.

While students across the nation walked out of school to protest gun violence, the 19-year-old accused of killing 17 people and wounding more in the Florida school shooting sat in court silently, his head bowed.

It was the ninth time in the space of 10 days that Sherry Denness had tried to kill herself. "It felt like checkmate - there were no open doors or other ways for my life to turn, I just wanted to die," she says. Sherry's story is about mental illness and lack of support in…

Measures are being introduced to tighten regulation of classroom teachers who help set public examinations in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the cheating scandal that hit two prestigious private schools last summer.

BBC låter fyra skolelever utvärdera några utvalda nyheter - kan de bedöma deras trovärdighet? (webb-tv).

FN:s skolor i Gaza kan tvingas stänga efter sommaren om FN-organet UNRWA inte kompenseras för det stora underskott som uppstod när USA nyligen drog in sitt stöd på 300 miljoner dollar.

Gärningsmannen Nikolas Cruz, 19, var känd av polisen och hade tidigare stängts av från skolan i Florida innan ha sköt ihjäl 17 personer. Trots flera tips om att han uttalat hot tog polisen inte in honom på förhör. Nu öronmärker kongressen motsvarande fyra miljarder kronor till att öka säkerheten och förebygga skolskjutningar.

Skoler skal frivilligt afprøve stopprøver i 0. klasse. De får dog ingen kontant bonus, siger undervisningsminister Merete Riisager.

How can more men be encouraged to teach nursery-age children?

Students at thousands of schools across the country plan to walk out of class at 10 a.m. Wednesday to protest gun violence and to mark one month since a mass shooting in Florida.

A university group says that the government's review of tuition fees in England should make a priority of finding ways to attract more mature and part-time students.

With salaries rising to £180,000, teaching the offspring of the mega-wealthy can be lucrative. But there are downsides to working with students who think money can solve any problem – or try to attack you with antique revolvers.