Daily Mail (UK)

Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project. Heads of the project have set themselves a goal of 'creating primary classrooms where queer sexualities are affirmed and celebrated'

The proportion of students gaining first class degrees has risen by 50 per cent in a decade, a report shows.

New dictionary helps parents understand teenglish language
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The Government has been accused of distorting school league tables in a bid to persuade secondaries to impose its new diploma on pupils.

Children from poor families are being blamed for their own poverty and treated as "feckless and idle", the head of a leading teaching union said.

Graduates on low and middle incomes could find themselves saddled with a lifetime of repayments if ministers go ahead with plans to allow universities to set their own charges. Currently, universities can charge fees of up to £3,000 a year.

There are not enough school nurses to carry out a national cervical cancer vaccination scheme, ministers have been warned.

Encouraging youngsters to play the latest 'active' computer games could help them keep trim, doctors believe. Research shows the physical effort of playing Nintendo Wii burns calories.

The cost of a putting a child through school is now almost £16,000, according to a study. The bill for sending a child to state school has risen by more than £1,500 in the past two years.

It was a favourite playground game until health and safety fears led to its decline. But now tag is racing back into favour as traditional playground games combat obesity.

Councils are recruiting 'citizen snoopers' to report litter louts, dog foulers and even people who fail to sort out their rubbish properly. The 'environment volunteers' will also be responsible for encouraging neighbours to cut down on waste. The move comes as local authorities dish out £100 fines to householders who leave out too much rubbish or fail to follow recycling rules.

Schools were yesterday accused of failing to stretch the brightest pupils as standards among seven-year-olds dropped across all key subjects.

Girls as young as 14 are having plastic surgery to avoid being bullied at school, a surgeon has revealed. Douglas McGeorge said he had reshaped the nose of one and fitted breast implants for others.

Some 50,000 children are at risk of harm or neglect at the hands of nurseries, childminders and afterschool clubs, Government inspectors have said.