Researchers say people with at least a high school education and healthier lifestyles are aiding a decline in new cases, or staving off dementia longer.

Officials in China are aggressively recruiting more male teachers in an effort to promote masculinity among male students. In China, four out of five teachers in urban areas are female, a 2012 study by Beijing Normal University found.

A first-grade class in Bosnia has learned sign language to communicate with a classmate who is deaf. Educators say the effort has motivated the student and helped boost his self-esteem.

In the refugee camp in eastern Lebanon where Fatima Khaled lives with her two daughters, only three children found a spot in the local school. So when parents found out that Khaled was an educator, they begged her to teach their children.

Germany has Europe's lowest rates of youth unemployment, partly because of its traditional apprenticeship system, which allows young Germans who don't go to university to train and qualify in companies.

Project 10,000 Kids - an initiative of a university-based organisation - provides free lessons in robotics and tech education to students in six cities in Nigeria.

Jo Johnson tells universities to increase access to higher education among poorer white boys and cut dropout rates among black students.

The government has missed its teacher recruitment targets for the last four years amid growing teacher shortages, says the official spending watchdog.

The refugee crisis means that schools have to take in many new pupils. But they might prove to be the highest achievers.

Stortingsflertallet sier nei til gratis skolemat for landets 619.000 skoleelever i grunnskolen. Hovedgrunnen er at nesten ni av ti elever har med seg mat hjemmefra.

OECD study shows that 22 per cent of the teenagers struggled with arithmetic, with 17 per cent below par in reading, and 15 per cent in science.

Tidligere generationer har kunnet kæmpe sig igennem skoledage til ud på eftermiddagen plus undervisning om lørdagen uden at få varige mén på sjælen.