A report last week revealed that it is not just the mental health of students that suffers because of exam stress, but parents too. What can you do to help alleviate the anxiety of another stressful exam season? How bad is exam stress for parents? In the survey from BBC Radio 5 Live, encompassing 830 parents of children in the … Read More
Education News weekly – 12th March, 2017
Apprenticeships, parents’ exam stress and the education world’s response to the spring Budget Grammars and free schools given budget boost – BBC The Chancellor promised a one-off payment of £320 million for 140 new free schools by 2020 – which could include grammar schools – on top of the 500 already pledged to be built. However, Labour’s Angela Rayner pointed … Read More
How Good Physical Health Can Mean Better Mental Health
For far too long, physical health and mental health have often been regarded as distinct – treated and diagnosed separately, and split into issues of ‘mind’ and ‘body’. But is this really helpful? While it’s true that one of the least helpful things one can say to someone suffering with clinical depression is ‘have you tried just going for … Read More
Mental Health: What Can Schools Do to Help Students Cope?
Following on from last week’s interview discussing how parents can help struggling teenagers, here is Part 2 of our interview with mental health expert Cami Moorjani. Cami has many years experience working in mental health as both a coach and counsellor to people of all ages, and across the whole mental health spectrum. This time, we talked about how schools … Read More
Mental Health in Education: What’s Going On?
The mental health and wellbeing of school and university students in the UK is one of the biggest issues currently facing our education system. But what’s really going on? Mental health and wellbeing is a huge issue, and can refer to any number of different cases. It can cover anything from anxiety and depression to eating disorders and self-harm, and can arise from … Read More
