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Mothers are not to blame for our childhood obesity crisis
Emla Fitzsimons. The number of obese children and teenagers across the world has increased tenfold over the past four decades and it is estimated that about one in four 14-year-olds in the UK is either overweight or obese. It is…
10 years on: why we still need better sex education for the digital world
Jessica Ringrose with Amelia Jenkinson and Sophie Whitehead of Sexplain. Last month new guidance for Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education for England was put out for consultation by the Department for Education. This draft statutory guidance is intended…
International School Meals Day: who gets a ‘proper’ dinner, who gets less and who gets nothing?
Rebecca O’Connell, Julia Brannen and Abigail Knight. If we had not included Portuguese young people in our cross national study of Families and Food in Hard Times*, the inadequacies in the free school meal system in England might not have…
‘I don’t want to have to apologise for wanting a career at 60’: staff development for older workers
Domini Bingham. Ageism is a dirty word, stretching across workplaces and society as a whole. Even if in principle equality and diversity are established by the law, the reality can be different, and a number of factors are in play.…
Taking back control of school accountability
IOE events. This month our What if…? debate tackled a reoccurring theme from the series – how we hold schools to account and the impact that has on how schools are run and what they provide for their pupils. This issue…
Exclusion and mental health difficulties: unravelling cause and effect and seeking answers in classroom practice
Amelia Roberts. We are in an ‘exclusions’ crisis.With a rise in exclusions for three years running, we now have 40 children per day being permanently excluded across the UK. There is a clear link between exclusions and subsequent mental health difficulties.…
UCL’s first Arabic MOOC will bring education opportunities to refugees in Lebanon
Eileen Kennedy. English dominates the internet. Most MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are available only in English. UCL has run many MOOCs with English language course providers such as FutureLearn. When you want to reach an Arabic speaking audience, however,…
Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem
shutterstock Francis Green. Private schools tend to be richly resourced and expensive, so those children lucky enough to attend them normally receive a good education, with academic advantages enhanced by a range of extra-curricular activities. But while this might be…
Social media and screen-time: To ban or not to ban – that’s probably not the question
Rob Davies, CLOSER. Informed by evidence from academics, royal societies, health officials, social media companies, young people, teachers, government ministers, research funders and more, the Science and Technology Committee report on the impact of social media and screen-use on young…
More British children are learning Mandarin Chinese – but an increase in qualified teachers is urgently needed
Mandarin Chinese: coming to a school near you soon? shutterstock Katharine Carruthers. Mandarin Chinese is seen as being of increasing strategic importance, and in recent years there’s been a growing number of students taking up the language in schools across…
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