Moving abroad as an international teacher comes with plenty of new things to get your head around - language, culture, currencies, which side of the road you drive on and more.

But for teachers who really want to turn their world upside down, how about an entirely new academic calendar?

“People looking at doing something completely different should look for a place in the Southern Hemisphere,” says Ronan Moore, deputy principal at Port Moresby International School in Papua New Guinea.

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Education about the menstrual cycle should be part of the PE curriculum, MPs have been told.

Dr Emma Ross, former head of physiology at the English Institute of Sport, told the House of Commons’ Women and Equalities Select Committee on Wednesday that sport is an “amazing place” to teach girls about their bodies.

With this in mind, MPs were also told that education about menstruation should be compulsory in PE teacher training.

Dr Ross said: “Coaches are so integral to retaining girls and wome...

Schools in Northern Ireland are “unsafe”, in a state of disrepair and could face renovation costs of up to £800 million.

That is according to the Stormont Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee, which is calling for an “urgent, system-wide reform of the schools’ estate management and maintenance”.

The committee published a report following its inquiry into managing the schools estate.

The report finds that significant maintenance backlogs could pose a health and safety risk and jeopardise educa...

Artificial intelligence is having a positive impact in Welsh schools for both teachers and pupils despite concerns around safeguarding, data protection and overreliance, a report has found.

Estyn, which inspect standards across education in Wales, visited 21 schools that have been noted for their use of AI.

The inspectorate’s report shows that teachers are benefiting from the technology reducing their workload, particularly in lesson planning, and are also finding it useful for resource creati...

Schools are having to contend with a “postcode lottery” on neurodivergence diagnosis , MSPs have heard.

The Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, which met this week as part of its inquiry into ADHD and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) pathways and support, was told that the current diagnosis framework is struggling to keep up with increasing demand.

The committee also heard that the lack of consistency across Scotland in diagnosing, treatment and support for ADHD and AS...

The proportion of students who are unhappy at secondary school is twice as high as that in primary, according to a major new survey.

The charity Parentkind has today released key insights from the responses it received from almost 6,000 parents of school-age children and young people in the UK.

In the National Parent Survey, one in five respondents said their child was only rarely or never happy at school. The charity warned that this proportion would represent around 2 million children and yo...