An Indian high school teacher, with a monthly salary of around $700, was astounded when a routine online check of his bank account showed a balance of almost $10 billion. Parijat Saha, from the town of Balurghat in West Bengal state, said he had checked his State Bank of India account online last Sunday to confirm reception of a 10,000Read more

Barclays Bank is to lend its support to England's new academies and free schools. The bank will offer £1m to groups that want to set up free schools and invest £15m in money management courses. It will also offer work experience to 3,000 pupils aged 16 to 18 from academies and free schools, and encourage staff to become governors. TheRead more

The chief executives leading the government's multi-billion pound apprenticeship schemes have both announced they are to step down. Geoff Russell will leave his position heading up the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) in the summer. The SFA has faced accusations of misuse of public money by training providers and an inquiry is to start next month. Mr Russell's departure coincides withRead more

Two educators say they don't have a problem with a slavery assignment given to middle school students in a Detroit suburb. Peggy Altoff, a past president of the National Council for Social Studies, said she found the questions asked by the Strong Middle School teacher to be legitimate, the Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday. Bob Pettapiece, an assistant education professorRead more

NASA says Montana elementary school students have won a competition to name its twin orbiting Lunar spacecraft, dubbing them "Ebb and Flow." Naming the spacecraft mapping the moon's gravity field was a nationwide school contest that began in October. Nearly 900 classrooms with more than 11,000 students from 45 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia participated, NASA saidRead more

Britain's education secretary said on Sunday for British students to move up their rankings in the international community, the exams must be tougher and schools must work harder, though the ambition could take a decade to achieve. Speaking to the BBC Sunday Politics show, Education Secretary Michael Gove said he is prepared to see a fall in the number ofRead more

The Riyadh Schools, a group of schools of high standard in the Kingdom, has embarked on a project aimed at heralding an era of educational excellence in the Kingdom. The Schools recently announced an ambitious plan aimed at developing a new education model in collaboration with global consultants of very high standard. The consultant team includes former US Secretary ofRead more

The education secretary has asked Ofsted to carry out another inspection of Downhills Primary School in Haringey - where parents have protested against plans to make the school an academy. Downhills is part of a group of "underperforming" schools which the government wants to become academies. But protesters have said the north London school is already improving. The Department forRead more

Education watchdog Ofsted wants to toughen the language of inspections in England - changing the "satisfactory" rating to "requires improvement". Ofsted's chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, wants to send a message that "satisfactory" is now unsatisfactory and that more schools should be pushing for the higher rating of "good". This is the latest attempt to improve schools which are seenRead more

The Indian High School Group will open four more schools in Dubai by the year 2020, the management announced on Monday at the official opening ceremony of the Indian International School. Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates airline and Group, inaugurated the Indian International School (IIS) at DubaiRead more