New Mental Health Centre in Wales

A new £10 million research centre aiming to ‘shine a light’ on why young people develop mental health problems is set to open soon. The centre will research into new ways of reducing anxiety and depression as well as what causes these issues; parents, family, genetics, social media or environmental factors by tracking thousands of […]

Social Media Not Linked to Mental Health

A professor of psychology of education at the University of Manchester, Neil Humphrey, has stated that the rise of social media use by adolescents is not to blame for mental health issues in schools. Research taken from 350,000 adolescents found that the variability of mental health accountable for a child’s social media use is ‘less […]

Bullying in Schools – What Can We Do?

The number one concern with young people in modern times is bullying of some sort with most of it starting at school; research released this week have stated that 60% of secondary pupils have experienced bullying. This comes as Rikama Education, who reported earlier this week, on Jeremy Wright who warns of social media operators […]

SATs – Branding Children as Failures

As all primary educators will know, SATs results were released yesterday, and most news outlets are headlining the positives of two-thirds of Year 6’s achieved their expected grades. Is two-thirds an acceptable amount? Thirty-three per cent failed to meet their grades, these year 6 children will have to be told that they have failed just […]

Teachers Feel ‘Guilty’ About Caring for Themselves

Taking care of our children and students are paramount, however should we start caring for the people who are mentoring, developing and nurturing our next generation? Teachers should not be feeling guilty or any kind of shame for paying attention to their own well-being. This year alone, there has been a steep rise in educational […]