According to a recent study, one in three German primary schools have reported violence against teachers. Across all German schools, half have reported psychological violence against educators.
The head of Germany’s second largest police union has responded to recent reports of anti-Semitism in the schoolyard by saying that authorities should be allowed to take children away from anti-Semitic parents.
For education experts, English language lessons have proven valuable in primary schools in North Rhine-Westphalia. But the Alternative for Germany’s state parliamentary group in NRW have a rather different view.
The current nationwide shortage of primary school teachers is set to increase significantly over the next seven years, according to a study published on Wednesday.
At the start of the millennium, Germany was lambasted by the OECD for the inequality that was prevalent in its schools. But a new study by the organization has found sizeable improvements in German schools.
In the modern world teamwork is becoming an ever more valuable asset to possess. And luckily for Germany its youth are rather good at it, a renowned study has found.
The case of a Muslim pupil refusing to remove her niqab triggered debate in Lower Saxony. Now a new law may mean that full-face Islamic veils will no longer be allowed in state schools.
Police were searching at least a dozen schools across Germany after they received threats by email Monday, although officials said they didn't believe the messages constituted a serious danger.
A head teacher at a state school in Munich is attempting to introduce a strict Christian regime by hanging crosses in the classroom and holding daily prayers. He's within the law, but parents and pupils are beginning to resist.
Fire services searched a school premises in Wuppertal and 25 children were taken to hospital on Tuesday after a teacher reported a “chemical smell” – but it later turned out to be a harmless stink bomb.
Teachers plan to walk out in turn on Tuesday after the first in a series of nation-wide public sector strikes took place at the University Hospital in Essen on Monday.
As footage of violent attacks on children by their peers increasingly finds its way onto the internet, a court in Lower Saxony on Monday handed three-year sentences to perpetrators of a May assault on a 14-year-old girl.
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.
Schoolchildren in western Germany came across horse meat while testing doner kebabs in a biology experiment. It comes a year after the horse meat scandal which showed much meat on sale in Europe had been mislabelled.
A German headteacher who shouted the Nazi greeting “Sieg Heil” to pupils at the start of her school's annual mini car race is now at the centre of an investigation by Bavarian authorities. She said she blurted it out by accident.
Peeling paint and boarded-up windows mark the tiny main street in the eastern German village of Briesen where a new private high school improbably stands.
Politicians and the tourism industry warned on Thursday that without an extension to the time frame in which schools can take summer holidays, family breaks in Germany would get a lot pricier.
German schoolchildren are improving in international comparisons, inching up the Pisa scale but still remain behind not only education giants such as Singapore and Hong Kong, but also Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Authorities are investigating a teacher whose pupils allegedly caught him watching pornography multiple times when he was taking science lessons, it was reported on Tuesday.
All German kids have to get sex education in school - but when teachers find the prospect too daunting they can call on a student-led initiative to take over. This week's instalment of Sex in Germany takes a look.
