School dinners: pupils given a taste of quality

Chips, over-boiled vegetables and packed lunches are banned from the Reach Academy free school, where the head eats with the pupils

Packed lunches: pupils face ban in new school food plans

No 10 aims to boost take-up of school meals as report by Leon suggests link between nutrition and academic performance

Don’t have a sleepless night over fears your children won’t hit the pillow

Sarah Ditum: Even if the link between late nights and poorer learning is causal, the problems behind wonky bedtimes can be intractable

Students: could you turn flexitarian?

Cash-strapped students are turning into part-time vegetarians to help save money and the environment. Could you survive a whole term without meat?

Blackpool to extend free breakfast scheme to 12,000 primary school pupils

Pilot scheme success prompts council to roll out £1.3m scheme to provide fruit, yogurt and bread to town's 33 primary schools

Students stay silent about mental health problems, survey shows

One in five suffer psychological ill health, but most shun university counselling

Let’s be more open about the joy of sex

Promoting or at least discussing pleasure has been shown to increase consistent condom use and other forms of safer sex, says Doortje Braeken

Technology makes higher education accessible to disabled students

Sponsor's feature: Instead of lugging heavy textbooks about, disabled students now have the option of e-textbooks that present content in a variety of ways to suit the reader

We must respect the decisions of young mothers

Young women who decide to have children are too often laughed at, disowned and denigrated by the wider community, a profound change in attitudes is needed, says Doortje Braeken

The best of all possible worlds?

Michael Cohen: Not yet, but as a UN report proves, we're making global progress. The other good news is that government really works