Från soliga Ibiza till snöiga Sundsvall. En högstadieklass från Spanien besöker just nu elever från Mikael Elias teoretiska gymnasium i Sundsvall. – Det är kallt här. Det snöar aldrig på Ibiza, säger David Gimeno, en av besökarna.

In Thailand, officials plan to reduce instructional time and reform school curriculum to include a focus on project-based learning. Officials say they are about six months away from finalising details of the plan. Currently, secondary-school students in Thailand have about 1,200 instructional hours each school year, and primary-school students have about 1,000.

“Those who deny women and girls their right to education, violate Islam,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told an audience at the world body on Monday. He said the religion was for all men and women without discrimination.

Cirka halvdelen af de tyske skoler er heldagsskoler. Effekten er god især for ressourcesvage og elever af anden etnisk herkomst. Især svage elever har gavn af mere tid, men eleverne skal være engagerede for at få stor gavn af flere timer.

Some primary and high schools in China are working to adjust to a new policy, to take effect 19 March, that limits the amount of homework students can be assigned, eliminates midterm exams and bans the use of exam rankings, among other things.

Under new standards announced Monday for teachers in Australia, applicants could be assessed based on their suitability for the profession as seen in "interviews, demonstrated values and aptitude, and a written statement".

Thailand has signed an agreement that will connect 27,231 schools nationwide through a Wi-Fi network as part of the government's One Tablet Per Child initiative.

Some New Zealand schools report a shortage of male teachers -- with at least one school saying it has no male teachers on staff. Officials say they have the greatest challenges in recruiting men to teach at the primary level.

America’s schools are in such disrepair that it would cost more than $270 billion just to get elementary and secondary buildings back to their original conditions and twice that to get them up to date, a report released Tuesday estimated.

The next few years will see some of the greatest changes in school recruitment for over half a century. But what's happening and how will it affect teachers and leaders?

Sixteen "studio schools" have opened in England, offering high-school students a full academic and vocational curriculum, as well as the opportunity to work with local employers.

Minlærer.no bør stenges. Jeg vil slippe å få høre av medelevene mine hvilke ting som er blitt skrevet om mamma.