Millions of Iranian pupils and students went to school on Monday as President Rouhani formally announced the beginning of the new school year.

New York bans children who were not vaccinated from attending public schools.

Malaysia and Indonesia shut thousands of schools over haze from forest fires, affecting at least 1.7 million pupils.

Schools in two cities in the Indonesian part of Borneo island will be closed for a week after smoke from forest fires caused air quality to hit "dangerous" levels.

Schools in the US state of New York have been mandated to remember the 2001 terrorist attacks.

While Palestinians are living under difficult circumstances and dire humanitarian conditions due to the Israeli blockade, the educational sector is also witnessing a degradation at all aspects.

Officials in Sudan order the shutdown of schools across the country amid an escalation of tensions over the killing of five students.

Pakistan has agreed on a plan to introduce reforms in the so-called religious schools and bring the institutions in line with conventional schools by curbing hate speech and extremist narratives promoted by Riyadh.

Concerned Muslim parents continue to protest in Birmingham over gay relationship education at a primary school.

A local council in London is to distribute food among poor children in schools.