Teens and tech: what happens when students give up smartphones?

A recent project challenged young people to go cold turkey on using digital devices for a week. The results suggest compulsion – not addiction – is the issue

Is your child sitting uncomfortably? Then we’ll begin

Those hard stacking chairs found in classrooms across the country may be giving schoolchildren bad backs. So one woman is campaigning to make lessons less painful

Wellbeing in boarding schools: six ways to boost student welfare

From informing students about sleep to ensuring living spaces are comfortable, housemistress Jenni Brittain shares the ways she cares for her charges

On the pill? That’s not enough to make sex safe

Being on the pill is making many young women at my university lax about their sexual health

What’s next on the menu for school dinners?

Jamie Oliver ended the reign of Turkey Twizzlers in school canteens a decade ago. Journalist Matthew Jenkin explores how mealtimes and food’s provenance are the next hot topics

Menstruation: how to break this taboo in the classroom

My #periodpositive project is about boys and girls discussing reproductive health frankly, with humour – and undoing the damage done by femcare manufacturers’ language of shame

How to teach … yoga

Back bends, side bends and pretzel twists – here’s how to stretch students’ minds and bodies through yoga

Plans for sexual consent lessons in schools ‘do not go far enough’

Ministers back introduction of lessons teaching children importance of consent but expert body says they must be made compulsory in order to achieve results

Sex education should be mandatory in all schools, MPs demand

Ministers scolded for lack of addressing inadequate teaching despite huge demand from teachers, parents and students

Students used to take drugs to get high. Now they take them to get higher grades

The use of ‘smart drugs’ to boost mental performance is rife in British universities. So can we all benefit from ‘having an edge’, or is it just another form of cheating?