School children are having their health and happiness neglected because they focus purely on academic achievement, experts have warned. A report published in the BMJ warned focusing solely on achievement could push pupils towards "risky" behaviour.
The UK needs to "nail down rigorous academic standards" in its education system, according to a leading columnist.
Angela Epstein dismissed calls for more to be done to protect children's wellbeing as schools took a tougher academic focus.
She said: "We have poor standards of numeracy and literacy in this country. Children learn by being amongst their peers and by children being children."
Expect cloudy conditions with some light rain on Saturday morning before brighter spells develop later in the southeast.
Over 100 people are missing and feared to have been buried under debris following a landslide in China.
Members of the London community have rallied round to offer their help to residents of the evacuated Chalcots estate in Camden.