Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced plans to implement education reforms in 2014. However, officials say they need the details of her proposals as soon as possible to budget enough money to effectively carry them out.

Plans are under way in France to lengthen the school week by adding a half day of classes on Wednesdays, when schools currently are not in session, while shortening the school days during the rest of the week.

Retirement packages for teachers in Japan will be reduced beginning next month, leading to an increase in the number of teachers retiring before the new system takes effect.

The publication of this year's set of league tables has brought success to two very different schools.

Almost 110,000 of the brightest schoolchildren finished compulsory education last summer without gaining a string of good GCSEs in core subjects, official league tables show.

A year-long campaign is calling for good quality lessons that explain more than just the biology of puberty and reproduction.

Lærere fortæller, at der ikke følger penge med, når de modtager en elev fra en specialklasse.

Parents are struggling to understand their children's mathematics homework because of confusion over new teaching methods used in the classroom, according to research.

Mobning på mobilen og på internettet breder sig blandt elever, viser ny undersøgelse.

Only one in three teaching students can identify US on a map, and half do not know where Pacific Ocean is, study finds.

Rising numbers of teenagers risk finishing school without a job, training place or university course because of a "worrying deterioration" in the standard of careers guidance, according to MPs.

England's Labour education spokesman, Stephen Twigg, suggested recently that schools recruit more former armed-services personnel to mentor students and model schools after army cadet forces to help teach students about character and discipline.