Finnish teenagers come top again in school skills
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Finland has kept its place at the top of a survey measuring teenagers&#39; educational skills, with schools in some Asian countries also among the best performers.
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Former Bruin Mikko Eloranta tipped a shot past Olaf Kolzig with 3:22 left, lifting Finland to a 2-1 win over Germany yesterday and into the semifinals of the World Cup of Hockey.
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Welsh students are outperforming the rest of the UK as they receive their A-level results.
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A GOAL from Fiorentina striker Fabrizio Miccoli gave a rookie Italian side victory over Finland. Coach Marcello Lippi fielded only a handful of the players who have helped his side to the top of Scotland&#39;s World Cup qualifying group.
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Students from an upper secondary school in Pori on Finland's west coast made contact with the crew of the International Space Station yesterday morning.
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Northern Ireland's A-level students consider their futures as results prove to be better than ever.
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US eighth-graders are gaining on their peers across the globe in science and math, but fourth-graders are being passed as their test scores remain stagnant, according to an international review of school performance.
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Though just teenagers, the applicants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are a scarily accomplished lot. They have started businesses and published academic research. One built a working nuclear reactor in his garage. In their high schools, they have led every extracurricular club and mastered the SAT.
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School pupils in Singapore lead the world in maths and science tests, latest international rankings suggest.
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A new effort is being made to get teenagers in England learning "1066 and all that", developing a sense of chronology.
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A study concluded that high school students are earning better grades, but their reading skills are not improving.
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TUUSULA, Finland  - Seven children and a head teacher were killed when a pupil opened fire at a school in southern Finland on Wednesday, hours after he posted a video on YouTube foreshadowing a massacre there.
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Finland, where there are no wholly-private schools, beat the top-ranking schools in Hong-Kong, Japan and Korea in maths and science - but the UK was left out of the study after the government failed to deliver the statistics.
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Grammar schools were more successful than independent schools in England in getting pupils into university.
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Results from an international test released Tuesday show Indiana fourth- and eighth-graders fared well in math and science compared with students nationally and in many other countries.
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The number of gifted and talented pupils in secondary schools is to be included in league tables in England.
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Pupils have made improvements in maths but there has been little progress in writing, official figures show.