Outspoken school adviser ousted
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The controversial education adviser Sir Cyril Taylor is replaced after 10 years spearheading school reforms.
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress has sacked its chief whip after finding him guilty of sexual harassment.
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The education minister is embroiled in an angry exchange over a teaching scheme for graduates which has been backed by Tony Blair.
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Zimbabwe's ruling party announced Tuesday it had expelled ex-finance minister Simba Makoni for challenging Robert Mugabe as the veteran leader expressed confidence of victory at upcoming national polls.
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A primary school head speaks of "nine months of hell" as he is cleared of sexually assaulting a boy pupil.
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The president of Eastern Michigan University was dismissed last night, following a scandal involving the universityâs handling of the rape and murder of a student.
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A frontbench Conservative MP is reprimanded after suggesting selective schools can boost overall standards.
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A school bus driver who chatted about stem cell research with her pupils was fired for inappropriate behavior, a local newspaper said on Thursday.
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A cabinet minister embroiled in the messy fallout of an affair with a married woman resigned Wednesday, his department said.
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A teacher wins Â£22,000 compensation for being unfairly dismissed after sexual allegations by two pupils.
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President George W. Bush's campaign adviser on courting Catholic voters quit this week after revelations of sexual misconduct with a female student that forced him to resign as a tenured professor at a leading Catholic university where he taught years ago.
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The chairman of Kenya&#39;s Anti-Corruption Advisory Board has resigned, accusing President Mwai Kibaki of interfering in the board&#39;s work.
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An editor of a Russian newspaper has resigned in what he calls a dispute over coverage of the Beslan school crisis. Raf Shakirov said he had to step down from the Izvestia daily after the paper&#39;s leadership deemed its coverage too shocking.
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An adviser to Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns over a row centred on Italy's Telecom Italia.
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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has chosen to fire D.C. School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey and replace him with the founder of a New York-based teacher-training organization, a dramatic step that signals the mayor's desire to bring "radical change" to the failing 55,000-student system.
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BELGRADE - Serbia&#39;s Education Minister was ridiculed in cartoons and pelted with resignation demands on Thursday for ejecting Darwin from school classrooms in favour of Old Testament &#39;creationism&#39;.
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The aides resigned to protest the British prime ministerÂs refusal to set the date when he will leave office.