More than 25,000 business-savvy young people from across the UK and Gibraltar entered our challenging youth enterprise competition. Now there are only 14 businesses battling it out to be awarded UK Company of the Year at the Young Enterprise final at the BFI on 2 July.
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Young Enterprise
02 Jul 2015
A major area of pupil wellbeing is drug and alcohol education, a topic which is likely to be a challenge to even the most experienced teacher. Mark Bowles of The Training Effect looks at five methods for ensuring that schoolchildren are fully aware of such dangers.
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Innovate My School
07 Jul 2015
More than three-quarters of firms are not satisfied with the careers advice for pupils in school, according to the survey.
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BBC
13 Jul 2015
Four boys have been expelled from a public school after staff discovered they had been involved with class A drugs.
Abingdon School in Oxfordshire punished the boys after allegedly finding a Facebook page called ‘drugs chat’ which showed them discussing cocaine and ecstasy.
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Daily Mail
13 Jul 2015
An alarming proportion of obese teenagers do not consider themselves overweight, scientists have warned today.
Rather, more than one in three overweight or obese teenagers think their weight is 'about right', a study found.
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Daily Mail
13 Jul 2015
Warwickshire’s director of public health, Dr John Linnane, says figures show that more young people are deliberately hurting themselves.
He lays the blame partly on social media for giving a platform to cyber bullies and projecting images of impossible bodily perfection.
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Coventry Telegraph
13 Jul 2015
Personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) should be a statutory subject in all state schools in England, campaigners say.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas is reintroducing a bill in Parliament saying PSHE is a "crucial part" of children's education.
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BBC
15 Jul 2015
Thousands of teenagers across the UK will have school lessons in mindfulness in an experiment designed to see if it can protect against mental illness.
Teachers will encourage students to use "mind exercises" that train their attention on the present, such as deep breathing, in the Wellcome Trust study.
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BBC
16 Jul 2015
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas is introducing a bill in parliament to make PSHE a statutory subject in all state schools in England and Wales…
The bill would require the lessons to include Sex and Relationship Education and education on violence against women and girls.
Would you support such a move?
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Schools Improvement Net
16 Jul 2015
PSHE requires improvement in 40% of schools. The situation appears to have worsened over time, and young people consistently report that the sex and relationships education (SRE) they receive is inadequate. This situation would not be tolerated in other subjects, and yet the Government's strategy for improving PSHE is weak. There is a mismatch between the priority that the Government claims it gives to PSHE and the steps it has taken to improve the quality of teaching in the subject.
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HM Government
16 Jul 2015
Research on what kind of careers provision is available in schools and colleges.
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HM Government
16 Jul 2015
Nearly half of schools and colleges have no formal links with employers and almost one in 10 provides no work experience at all, a study by the Department for Education finds.
Research published today shows that 8 per cent of institutions fail to give pupils the opportunity to carry out work experience and 13 per cent do not provide visits to workplaces at which students can learn about careers.
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TES
20 Jul 2015
Head teachers are more concerned with pupils' mental health than any other issue related to well-being, a survey of 1,180 school leaders suggests.
Two-thirds of head teachers polled for management support service, The Key, named mental health as the top concern.
Domestic violence and cyberbullying were the next biggest concerns, named by 58% and 55% of heads respectively.
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BBC
20 Jul 2015
The education secretary has not backed MPs' calls to make PSHE - personal, social, health and economic education - compulsory in state schools in England.
But a senior adviser has suggested that the door was being left open for a future review of its status.
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BBC
20 Jul 2015
Children in the UK are at a higher risk of being radicalised during the school holidays, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has suggested.
Ms Morgan said the summer break is a "difficult time of year" and indicated that girls face a higher risk of joining the so-called Islamic State in Syria.
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The Telegraph
21 Jul 2015
A leading headteacher has said that teenagers should take responsibility for the household budget and chores during the summer holidays
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The Telegraph
28 Jul 2015
The proportion of pupils experimenting with smoking has dropped to the lowest level on record – with more children having tried e-cigarettes than conventional tobacco, a major new study finds.
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TES
28 Jul 2015
Schools do not understand the benefits apprenticeships can offer their students and careers advisers are “blindly” leading young people away from them, according to two-thirds of the firms that took part in a new survey.
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TES
28 Jul 2015
One in four 15 to 18-year-olds say they have ‘no idea’ what they want to do when their compulsory education comes to an end, a new study has found.
NotGoingToUni – a website which shows young people their options outside of going to university – spoke with just over 81,500 Year 11 to 13s and asked them if they had an idea of what the ‘future you’ does.
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The Independent
05 Aug 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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BBC
08 Jan 2014