School leaders on Thursday insisted that PSHE lessons are vital for pupils and help them withstand the pressures of modern society - amid controversy on the teaching of topics such as gender identity.

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PSHE lessons in schools are like the “Wild West” and are used to teach contested ideologies, an MP has claimed. Speaking at a meeting of the education select committee held to examine children’s ...

Digital literacy should sit alongside reading, writing and arithmetic as the fourth pillar of a child's education and must feature as part of compulsory personal, social, health and economic education ...

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TOO many schools are failing to teach sex education and other "vital" issues teenagers need to understand for later life, Ofsted said today. The education watchdog condemned some secondary schools for ...

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Schoolchildren across Britain may be offered sleep lessons to help tackle the problem of insomnia among young people. The lessons became available to teachers at the end of last year and was devised ...