Scottish schools try out free meals
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Â·  More than 10,000 pupils in poor areas to benefit Â·  English parents may get children's weight warning
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TACOMA, Wash. - A teaching assistant gave some preschoolers dog food to eat during a play-acting exercise at Northeast Tacoma Elementary School. A Tacoma School District spokeswoman said the children spat out the dry dog food and no one suffered any ill effects.
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Scotland's medical schools are given Â£4.4m to identify the risks of developing genetic diseases.
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Pupils and staff at a school in Wales are being offered anti-flu drugs after being in contact with a child suspected of contracting bird flu in an outbreak of a mild strain of the virus, health authorities said on Monday.
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A campaign to get school children and teenagers out of school to do more sport is announced by Gordon Brown.
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By Nicole Stricker, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 28--School cooks, janitors and bus drivers got a little legislative  love Tuesday when they were added to the public education funding bonanza.
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Five of the countryÂs largest snack food producers said they would start providing more nutritious foods to schools in an effort to fight childhood obesity.
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A school in Kent introduces random drug testing of pupils as they return for the spring term.
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School districts across the country have been taking steps to make food in schools healthier, but some parents say they are are taking it too far.
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Scotland's schools and colleges spent more than Â£250,000 on compensation to teachers last year.
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UK schoolchildren are being offered the chance to design an experiment for a small satellite.
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School meals are to undergo a major government review in an attempt to tackle childhood obesity.
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School exam results across different parts of Scotland are revealed in official statistics.
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The city's public school district will use a grant funded through the No Child Left Behind Act to help students become healthier and fight obesity.
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McDonald's has won approval to offer courses which could form part of an A-level standard qualification.
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Britain grants burger chain right to award credits toward a high school diploma for on-the-job skills.
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Comment is free: Boris Johnson: While Scottish MPs vote on English university funding, English MPs can do nothing to stop paying Scotland's student fees.