Girls should start careers lessons from the age of seven to encourage them to become more ambitious, Labour’s shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt said yesterday.
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02 Mar 2015
Schools should abandon their anti-bullying programmes because they make children more "thin-skinned" and less resilient, according to the head of a thinktank.
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02 Mar 2015
Should the onus on providing sex education be on schools alone? What is the rest of society doing that is age appropriate
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02 Mar 2015
All schools in England should have a teacher trained to give high-quality careers advice, particularly to poorer pupils, says a charity.
Without a fresh effort, careers advice in schools will remain "fragmented and ineffective", says Teach First.
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03 Mar 2015
As the Prime Minister hosts a summit on child sexual exploitation, his Government has yet to respond to an Education Select Committee report which described the Department for Education’s approach to Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education, the subject through which pupils learn to keep themselves safe, as weak.
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04 Mar 2015
A report written for Theresa May is claiming anti-drugs campaigns including drug education in schools can increase the risk of drug use. In the absence of clear evidence either way, should schools be providing anti-drugs lessons or not?
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05 Mar 2015
Ministers back introduction of lessons teaching children importance of consent but expert body says they must be made compulsory in order to achieve results
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The Guardian
09 Mar 2015
Gay pupils across the country are being subjected to homophobic bullying at the hands of their teachers, according to research published today.
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The Independent
09 Mar 2015
Not enough teenagers are taking up apprenticeships despite concerted government efforts, including £1.6bn of investment, a group of MPs has said.
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10 Mar 2015
According to a new study, more than one in 10 secondary school pupils would choose education as their preferred career, despite many having inaccurate salary expectations
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11 Mar 2015
Skills minister Nick Boles says apprenticeships have an image problem with teachers because they were brought up at a time when university was the clear choice for able pupils. Do you agree?
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Schools Improvement Net
11 Mar 2015
Mental health services in England will receive £1.25bn in next week's Budget, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has confirmed.
He said the cash, spent over five years, would mainly go towards helping more than 100,000 young people.
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16 Mar 2015
Dragons Den star Peter Jones believes teachers and school leaders welcome enterprise education and appreciate it provides essential skills for life but feels the government is dragging its feet over making it compulsory. What do you think?
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Schools Improvement Net
16 Mar 2015
A study has found that suspending children from school for marijuana use is likely to lead to further use of the drug rather than discouraging it.
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The Independent
23 Mar 2015
For children to learn to make wise choices in life, PSHE needs good teachers, status in the curriculum, and recognition of the complexity of the challenge
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The Guardian
24 Mar 2015
Oxford student Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill explains why sex education in Britain is in desperate need of reform
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The Oxford Student
25 Mar 2015
From sharing their own stories to building careers into the curriculum, there are six main ways teachers can help students explore future opportunities
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The Guardian
26 Mar 2015
More than half of 850 staff surveyed by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) agreed more pupils had developed problems.
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BBC
30 Mar 2015
Teenager Rhiannon Blair was heartbroken after the callous youths poured lighter fuel over her precious notes and set them ablaze - destroying years of hard work in a few seconds of mindless vandalism.
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Mirror
30 Mar 2015
Almost a third of young people said they did not learn about sexual consent in sex education lessons, says a survey from the National Children's Bureau.
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08 Jan 2014