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."
A woman who attempted to get her idol's full pout was left with hugely swollen lips when her plan went horribly wrong.
All would-be MPs should be forced to tell voters what paid jobs they have and whether they would keep them if elected, Lord Bew has said.
A Para who won the Victoria Cross gave up his military history studies just weeks into the course as he wanted to be a part of it instead.