The UNESCO Global Microscience Experiments Project aims to provide a practical approach to experiencing science for elementary and secondary school students (and in some countries, students in their first academic year), using kits designed especially with a textbook illustrating the various experiments.

UNESCO: Strenthening Scientific Education in Niger

After 1986 I felt like a skilled surgeon who's been locked out of the operating room and watches through the glass in horror as some first-year medical students go to work on a patient.

FORBES: Dow Jones Interactive

The first wave of some 3, 000 elementary and high school students went back to school last week.

NPR: New Orleans Schools Welcome Back Students

And then there's the increasingly prevalent idea that some students could, in effect, do their first year at uni while they're still at school - saving time and money.

BBC: The golden age that never was