Transport

Munich to offer pupils and trainees €1 per day public transport ticket

Plans to offer school pupils and trainees in Munich a €365 ticket have been given the green light.

exams

Thousands of German students protest against maths exam deemed 'too difficult'

It's not unusual for school pupils to find tests difficult. But students in Germany have taken it to the next level by launching petitions against their final secondary-school maths exam.

Schools

Nine school pupils hospitalized at Hamburg sports event on hottest day of year

Almost fifty rescue workers were called to a pupils' track and field event in Hamburg on Tuesday due to complaints of the heat. It was the hottest day of the year in the Hanseatic city, with the mercury hitting 33.7C.

Schools

Dozens of pupils saved from burning bus

Dozens of teenage pupils on a school trip to the United Kingdom narrowly escaped catastrophe when their school bus went up in flames on the motorway in the early hours of Monday morning.