Due to concentrating on house move and work for the last few weeks, I’ve not done this recently, but here goes:
- Internet generation leave parents behind: Children are spending increasing amounts of their lives in front of televisions, computers and games consoles, cramming in nearly six hours of screen time a day, according to research.
- On-the-job training too complicated for employers and wastes money, say MPs: A powerful committee of MPs have accused the government of spending millions of pounds on qualifications employers do not want and do not understand.
- More than half of pupils fail to hit GCSE target: More than half of the nation’s teenagers are still leaving school without reaching the Government benchmark of five A* to C grade passes, including maths and English.
- Playground bullies torment girls for longer than boys: Playground bullies torment girls for longer than boys, a study has shown.
- Dozens of pupils suspended over Facebook hate site: Dozens of girls have been suspended from school for setting up a defamatory Facebook site about a teacher.
- Only 10 teachers in eight years are stuck off for incompetence in class: An investigation into why so few teachers have been referred for incompetency hearings has been launched, after it emerged that only 10 have been struck off in eight years.
- More friends and emotional security – how northern children top the happiness league: Teenagers in the north of England are emotionally more secure than those anywhere else in the country
- Inner-London teenagers least likely to take drugs: Inner-London teenagers are the least likely in the country to take drugs and drink alcohol, with schoolchildren in many rural areas more at risk from substance abuse, a major study of children’s happiness shows.
- Sexual bullying: thousands of pupils suspended: A “shocking new trend” in bullying as figures showed more than 3,000 children were suspended from school for sexual misconduct.
- Absentee fathers must be sent their children’s school reports: Schools are being told they must step up communications with absentee fathers to try to improve pupils’ well-being and performance.
- Pupil mentors to help tackle school bullies: Pupils will be taught how to listen to each other’s problems and help classmates who struggle to form friendships or cope with bullying.
- The five-year-old’s guide to drinking safely: Parents are to be given guidance as to how much alcohol their children can drink safely from the ages of five to 18.
- Male teachers face more bad behaviour by pupils: Male teachers are bearing the brunt of pupils’ aggression in the classroom, according to a recent survey.
