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Education

Heavy periods affect school attendance and exam scores, study in England finds

22 May at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Charities say more should be done to support girls who experience prolonged bleeding and severe menstrual pain

Heavy, prolonged periods and severe menstrual pain are linked with lower school attendance and poorer GCSE scores, according to new research.

The England-based study found that more than a third of girls (36%) who participated experienced heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding, which...

Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds

22 May at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report

Sure Start children’s centres provided £2 of savings for every £1 in costs, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), prompting calls for the government to look at such services as potentially paying for themselves.

The centres, championed by the last Labour government, created...

Cutting aid for girls’ education isn’t just wrong – it’s economically illiterate | Larry Elliott

21 May at 18:05 PM, via The Guardian

This slash-and-burn approach is indefensible and would have been anathema to previous Labour governments

Ask any one of the 187 female Labour MPs whether they would have made it to the House of Commons without an education and you would probably get short shrift. Most would wax lyrical about their school days and the teachers who taught and inspired them.

Yet the government of which those women...

Review of student suicides in England dodged ‘real issues’, say bereaved parents

21 May at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Uinversity students’ mental health and wellbeing must be ‘prioritised alongside their studies’, argue campaigners

A review of student suicides in England dodged “the real issues” with universities, the parents of a student who killed herself before a class presentation have said.

The national review of higher education student suicide deaths, commissioned by the Department for Education, heard...

Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes

20 May at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions

It’s Saturday afternoon and my friend’s five-year-old daughter is lying next to me on her living room floor. She explains to me that she does this at school. She lies on her back with the rest of the class and they do something called the body scanner, where they all pay...

I finally managed to impress the gen Z of my household – by admitting I skived out of an open day | Zoe Williams

20 May at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

Back in 1990, my sister and I pretended we were looking at universities when we were, in fact, roaming around shopping malls. This astounded my teens

When you book your kid on a university open day, places tend to have a pretty strict specification: no more than one guest. Me and the middle teen kicked this around a bit, planning her trip to Bristol. Her friends could book their own place; it...

Republican Tax Plan Could Hurt at Least 58 Colleges

20 May at 11:01 AM, via New York Times

A plan for a hefty new tax on university endowments was crafted to target “woke” schools, lawmakers said. But a small Kansas college and a Texas medical school might also be hit.

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