Teachers really are the best careers advisors. They turn us onto, or away from, entire life paths in a sentence. Though they may never know which way, ultimately, it will go.
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Schools Week
11 May 2018
Hundreds of thousands of pupils are preparing to take new, more rigorous GCSE exams this week, which are on a par with the best performing education systems in the world, the School Standards Minister announced today.
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Department for Education
14 May 2018
Number of children referred by schools for mental health treatment up by a third in three years
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TES
14 May 2018
Urban gangs are using children as young as 12 to help move drugs in out-of-town locations
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The Guardian
14 May 2018
In a historic broadcasting first the BBC and commercial radio stations are joining forces to broadcast a one-minute message about mental health to 20 million listeners. The campaign will air simultaneously across hundreds of radio stations on 15 May at 10.59am.
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Campaign
14 May 2018
This annual event usually generates a flurry of activity from press and campaigners around a specific theme (this year’s theme is stress). Whilst this undoubtedly has value, the week inevitably attracts criticism from those who say that mental health issues impact a significant proportion of the population for 52 weeks, not one week, of the year.
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TES
16 May 2018
Tes is reporting that the drop in apprenticeship starts since the introduction of the levy is getting even more severe, the latest government statistics reveal.
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Schools Improvement Net
21 May 2018
The GCSE is 30 – and it’s suddenly much tougher, causing extraordinary anxiety for teachers and pupils. So should it be scrapped?
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The Guardian
21 May 2018
Care leavers who choose to start an apprenticeship will receive a £1000 bursary to help the transition into the workplace.
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The Guardian
21 May 2018
New findings published by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at UCL Institute of Education (IOE) have revealed how teenage girls from less well-off families are more likely to experience mental ill-health than their better-off peers.
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UKEdChat
22 May 2018
Charity calls on schools to include the issue of bullying based on a person's appearance in PSHE lessons
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TES
23 May 2018
T Levels are courses, which will be on a par with A levels and will provide young people with a choice between technical and academic education post 16.
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Department for Education
29 May 2018
When used appropriately, external visitors can be an excellent support or enhancement to PSHE. But how can you be sure their input is safe, effective and relevant? Anne Bell advises
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SecEd
30 May 2018
Mind has started working on children’s and young people’s mental health over the past few years, providing support and identifying the need to strengthen mental health services in schools.
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BESA
01 Jun 2018
Bullying guidance should focus on teachers as much as pupils, union says
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TES
04 Jun 2018
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
An anti-bullying charity has been campaigning to change the definition of the word.
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BBC
06 Jun 2018
Violent bullying has fallen while name-calling and 'social exclusion' have risen
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TES
14 Jun 2018
Saturday’s Times featured the headline “Schools buckle under 70,000 self-harm cases“. The article went on to detail how, owing to inconsistencies in the way self-harm is recorded and dealt with across different schools, this figure probably only gave a small indication of the true scale of the problem.
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Schools Improvement Net
14 Jun 2018
"For me, having cannabis in the evening is the equivalent of having a glass of wine on a Friday night.
"People of my generation see cannabis as safer than drinking and safer than smoking," says Faye, 22
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BBC
21 Jun 2018