Only 12% of primary school teachers are male, compared with 38% of secondary school teachers - with the proportions virtually unchanged since last year.

BBC: One in four primary schools still has no male teachers

The government has set ambitious targets with few resources to ensure that the country's more than 10m primary- and secondary-school teachers acquire the skills and determination to change the habits of a lifetime.

ECONOMIST: China

Thorstein Veblen's suggestion in 1918 that by doing any undergraduate training at all the university was in danger of becoming a body of secondary-school teachers masquerading as something much grander has not lost its sting.

ECONOMIST: Higher learning and the middle classes

The Design and Technology Secondary Education degree is a three-year course and qualifies students as secondary school Design and Technology teachers.

BBC: Wheelchair 'walks' down stairs

Nationwide, women comprised 86 percent of elementary teachers in the 2010-2011 school year, according to the National Education Association, compared to 62 percent of secondary school teachers.

FORBES: Between School and Home; Teacher Is Always on Duty

At mid-day it was high school students, primary and secondary teachers.

BBC: Eurozone crisis: Democracy in the balance

Parents, pupils and teachers fighting to save a secondary school have handed in an 8, 000-strong petition to Shropshire Council.

BBC: Petition over Shrewsbury school closure plan

When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than a secondary education (so teachers have barely more education that their students).

CNN: Africa 'must think big for its children'

Concerns were also highlighted that more than half of teachers asked thought that "profiling" of P7 pupils - which is designed to help children in their transition to secondary school - was "not very useful".

BBC: New curriculum workload 'too high', EIS union survey warns