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.

Number of teachers leaving the profession has risen 11% over three years, NAO says, and recruitment targets have been missed for past four years.

Undervisningsministeriet har udsendt en vejledning, der giver mulighed for at forkorte skoledagen.

Forsker forudsiger, at når det går op for skolerne, at de gerne må forkorte dagene, vil tendensen brede sig.

An increasing number of school districts and charter networks are trying to break up concentrated poverty and balance their student populations by race and income.

Kortere skoledage kan ikke bruges som en måde at spare penge, slår skoleledernes formand fast.