Leading head attacks ‘size zero’ culture
Top girls' school describes fashion industry's use of ultra-thin models as deplorable.
Making a (healthy) meal of it
Students learn how to avoid the latest hazard of university life: the temptation of fast food. Lucy Tobin reports.
Prue Leith to oversee school meals reform
· Businesswoman chef to chair quality watchdog · Cookery lessons should be compulsory, she says
Medical students owe more than first year salary, says BMA
The average debt of a final-year medical student is now more than £21,000, says BMA - £1,000 more than the basic annual salary of a junior doctor.
Intensive care for non-traditional medics
Medical schools need to train a greater diversity of students, but how to get them on to the course? Harriet Swain reports.
Teach contraception to primary pupils, says report
Children should be taught about contraception while they are still in primary school, according to a report published today.
Severely troubled boys ‘soothed by fish oils’
· School findings warrant more research, say experts · Big improvement seen in behaviour after 20 weeks
The great school dinner revolt
Johnny Dee: Several weeks ago, photographs of two mothers delivering pies and chips through the railings of Rawmarsh comprehensive in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, caused outrage.
Campaigners say school food reforms neglect vegetarians
Meat, dairy and fish are recommended but alternatives are lacking, writes Claudia Cahalane.