Schools are struggling. Slashed funds have caused them to bottleneck their curriculum, and teachers are bombarded with long working hours and insufficient pay. Of course, the children themselves have their own issues to contend with too, ranging from poor learning...
Your brain is more complex than any computer ever invented. It carries out millions of processes every day and to run efficiently, it needs the right kind of fuel. When preparing for exams – GCSE, A-level – or any kind of event where you have to be on fighting...
Who’d have thought that it’s almost 15 years since Jamie Oliver first waged war against fried food, sugary drinks and the infamous Turkey Twizzlers of the school dining hall? At the time, the 2005 government listened to Oliver’s crusade: they gave funding, the...
The academisation of schools has been one of the most contentious issues in British education ever since the policy’s inception in 2000. The system, which involves schools receiving funding directly from central government instead of their local authority, was...
Most people welcome shorter working weeks. Modern business employers have introduced flexi-time, whilst work-from-home schemes are more likely to be available. Moreover, last year New Zealand famously trialled a four-day work week, with discussions to shorten them...
In 2018 it was revealed that one in eight school-age children in the UK had an identified mental disorder. The study, conducted the previous year, was the first to shed light on the subject in 14 years. More recently, the BBC reported that child mental health unit...
