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Education Executive caught up with Stephanie Cox of The Shaw Mind Foundation to see what school business managers can do to alleviate the pressure on teachers, students and, importantly, themselves

SCHOOLS across the country are benefitting from unique insights into pupil and teacher mental wellbeing, thanks to an initiative from Devon based Monkey Mind.

One expert offers advice on satisfying the new careers education requirements that come into force in September 2018

A growing proportion of young people are interested in starting an apprenticeship rather than going to university, but teachers are still unlikely to advise their high-attaining students to take this route.

Students may be afraid to expose bullying through fear of a 'snitch'' label causing social isolation, says this academic

Researchers call for more training to help teachers, amid reports of growing racism in schools against Eastern European pupils

PSHE Association chief says movements such as #Metoo show the subject's relevance

"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

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.

Violent bullying has fallen while name-calling and 'social exclusion' have risen

An anti-bullying charity has been campaigning to change the definition of the word.

Call for PSHE to become statutory to prevent 'unpicking' of subject

Bullying guidance should focus on teachers as much as pupils, union says

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.

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

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.

Charity calls on schools to include the issue of bullying based on a person's appearance in PSHE lessons

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.

Care leavers who choose to start an apprenticeship will receive a £1000 bursary to help the transition into the workplace.

The GCSE is 30 – and it’s suddenly much tougher, causing extraordinary anxiety for teachers and pupils. So should it be scrapped?