In an effort to attract the best and brightest into teaching, a central Auckland school will pay the university fees of former students who want to become teachers.
Schools in Russia are expected to return to the physical-education programme adhered to in the 1930s, in which students will be taught "to stand up for themselves, their family and, in the final run, the Fatherland".
Having recently emerged from nearly four decades of conflict, everything in South Sudan needs to be built or rebuilt. As the world's newest country, it also has the world's lowest education indicators.
Why do Japanese children learn almost nothing about the war? Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history.
Plans for the first new grammar school to open in England for 50 years are under threat after ministers said the land should be used for a new free school instead.