Föräldrar till skolbarn i Costa Rica har satt hänglås på 20 skolor i protest mot sexualundervisningen för tonåringar. Ett rykte går att undervisningen främjar homosexualitet, uppger landets utbildningsdepartement.
'The education system is buckling under the weight of funding cuts, which are driving away staff who haven't already lost their jobs, and jeopardising our children's future'.
School programmes encouraging children to take more exercise and eat healthily are unlikely to have any real effect on childhood obesity, a study in the British Medical Journal suggests.
Researchers say much wider action is needed after a major programme in primary schools in the West Midlands was shown to have made no difference to obesity levels.
The Annual Survey of Education Report 2017 paints a grim picture of children in rural schools; some teachers are trying to change that by using comics.