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Teenage girls who tell their parents they want to follow a “healthy diet” may be showing early signs of an eating disorder, a headmistress has warned.

Employers who say they want to see greater skills in the workforce also have to put their money where their mouths are

The number of civil servants tasked with driving the Government's flagship apprenticeship programme is being cut, prompting questions over its long-term viability

Academic testing goes against the whole ethos of vocational learning, says the director of skills at the exam board OCR

On Thursday, the Citizenship Foundation asked teachers to tell them if they agreed with government ministers that citizenship had 'been strengthened' in the new national curriculum. The answer was a pretty resounding 'No'.

Lesbian, gay and transsexual students are having unsafe sex and putting themselves at risk of disease because sex education lessons only address the needs of heterosexual students, a leading sex education organisation says.

It’s the middle of the summer vacation season and, with thousands of young people holidaying abroad, we inevitably read stories of their worst, most controversial behaviour.

Smoking, drinking and drug use among secondary school pupils have more than halved over the past 10 years, figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre suggest (HSCIC).

A charity has today awarded seven projects a share of a £1 million pound fund designed to help narrow the gap between education and the skill needs of the UK economy

pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group), the leading financial education charity, is set to merge in to Young Enterprise, the UK’s largest enterprise education charity.

Nick Boles, the new Skills Minister, says apprenticeships are increasingly being seen as equal in value to university degrees as it emerges that up to 100 teenagers are chasing each post this year

The number of children turning up at hospital having deliberately hurt themselves rose by 70 per cent in two years

Survey warns explicit material is wrecking adolescence for many young people

The stress of school life might seem like a distant memory but with a new term approaching psychologist Gail Kinman offers her advice on how to prepare for the melee

A new study shows that British teens feel their teachers are pressuring them into have sex at 16, by assuming that everyone's at it.

A major boost in apprenticeships was unveiled by the Government as thousands of teenagers contemplated their future as they prepared to receive their exam results.

The number of boys self-harming is at a four-year high, according to official figures – and many more cases are going unreported

One in three adults who were bullied at school claim that it has had a negative impact on their career prospects and self confidence, new research suggests

Health leaders are calling for an emergency taskforce to be set up to tackle childhood obesity in England. They want an action group, made up of doctors, nurses, dieticians, dentists and schools, to be set up urgently.

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.