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A new study, by education marketing consultancy GK and Partners, claims three-quarters (75%) of sixth-formers would consider an apprenticeship more seriously if degree apprenticeships were offered in their chosen career. FE News reports.

The need for anti-racist education in schools is becoming more urgent than ever, teachers’ leaders have insisted.

Parents may be contributing to children's mental health issues because they are phone-obsessed, says Natasha Devon

Young people from all walks of life who want to be economists could get a salaried government apprenticeship while studying for their degree, with the launch of a new career opportunity.

PSHE has dropped off many schools’ timetables, but it is vital we bring the subject back, says this English teacher

Childline, a free and confidential counselling service for young people run by the NSPCC, has relaunched its #ListenToYourSelfie campaign to reduce peer-on-peer sexual abuse and encourage teenagers who have been sexually abused by their peers to speak out.

Relationships and sex education (RSE) is finally being updated. Draft guidance, published in July, is open for public consultation. Schools that are ready to provide high-quality RSE should do so from September 2019 and those needing longer to prepare have until September 2020 before they must be teaching the new curriculum.

Drop in proportion of pupils who report they are bullied each month - but parents say it is on the rise

Level 4 and 5 qualifications could be the key to unlocking skills demanded by employers

Childhood bullying is so common that it may not seem like a big deal. Up to 35% per cent of people are estimated to have experienced it at some point. By adulthood, we are generally expected to have “got over” it. But the mental health effects of being bullied can be serious and last a lifetime.

The Government’s green paper on children's mental health ‘doesn’t go far enough’ in tackling the challenges many young people are facing, local government leaders warn.

Around half (49 per cent) of admissions officers said they do not believe that students arrive at university "sufficiently prepared” for higher education, according to a study conducted by ACS International Schools.

The NSPCC says more than 100,000 abused children in Yorkshire & Humber are being "let down" and the charity's findings show 64 per cent of NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups' local mental health plans "failed to properly plan for the needs of abused children."

Draft guidance published today to make sure education prepares young people for life in the modern world.

Though campaigners broadly welcomed the proposed changes, they said they were disappointed that the introduction of the new curriculum – which was due to be rolled out in schools by September 2019 – had been delayed by a year.

Pupils at top schools are being groomed to work as drugs couriers because they are more likely to escape attention, it is claimed. Middle-class children as young as 12 are being pressured to join crime gangs through intimidation and blackmail as well as the lure of “status” and cash.

Health education is to be made compulsory in all schools in England under new government plans following growing concerns about mental health problems among young people.

The government plans to let 15-year-olds overrule their parents' wishes and opt in to sex education lessons they have previously been withdrawn from. Education Secretary Damian Hinds says children should be able to request sex education in at least one of the three terms before their 16th birthday.

Teenagers are becoming less likely to have sex, preferring to spend time with their families and having romantic relationships online, a study suggests.

Teachers will be expected to teach pupils how to spot poor mental health as well as how to stay healthy