Finland to scrap cursive handwriting from school programme
Finland is to remove cursive writing from its education programme and replace it with lessons in keyboard typing. The Nordic country’s education board...
Clever schools catching Danish absentees via by SMS
Danish schools that have been sending text messages to pupils’ parents when their children fail to show up at school have witnessed a significant fall...
Vigilante parents trying to deal with school bullies
Danish parents are reported to be increasingly taking the law into their own hands when it comes to dealing with the issue of bullying in schools. One...
Male students fined after classroom striptease
A Swedish court has fined two teenagers for tying a female classmate to a chair and stripping in front of her while a third recorded the incident and ...
Icelandic teachers vote on a strike to demand corrected wages.
The Icelandic Minister of Finance and The Union of Icelandic Upper-Secondary Teachers have not reached an agreement regarding teachers’ wages after th...
Finland tries out midday school activities
A number of schools in Finland have been piloting a flexible timetable system allowing pupils to enjoy extra-curricular activities during the school d...
Copenhagen students demonstrate at university
Students at Copenhagen University demonstrated on Wednesday in protest at plans to make them finish courses more quickly. The university had planned t...
Young Finnish pupils to learn programming?
A Finnish minister says the government is mulling the idea of introducing computer programming to the syllabus of primary schools in the country. Alex...