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Universities should guide all learners towards a better future

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A key focus of the Department of Education and Skills’ Action Plan for Education 2017 is to improve the educational outcomes for learners at risk of education
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Raising teenagers: The top psychologist’s guide for parents

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Slammed doors, bad moods and hours lost staring at their smartphone? Expert Ian Williamson explains how to deal with your child

Education needs a revolution, not just more cash

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We are still stuck with a school system that fails to cater for two thirds of young people

Spending time with toddlers helps elderly fight dementia

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Experts have come up with an invigorating tonic for the elderly — a toddler.
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How to occupy your kids this summer

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Outdoor-learning schemes make kids happier and fitter. Why aren’t there more of them?
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Family: how to deal with a lying teenager

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Every parent knows that teenagers fib. Lying is normal boundary testing that happens as children grow up (or “individuate” as an American dad once described the adolescent
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Calls to ban doll that ‘spies’ on children

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She is the smart, talking doll that “you can talk to like a real friend”. According to child safety campaigners, however, My Friend Cayla may also be
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Teenage girls need “other mothers” as mentors

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Daughters can be deaf to maternal wisdom — so we need female mentors to help raise them
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It’s a protective instinct to snoop on our kids, but we risk losing their trust

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Time to confess my guilty maternal secret: I am a sneaky snoop. I’m so desperate to know what is going on in my teens’ lives that I
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Britain is a nation full of cry-babies, scientists reveal

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Babies cry more in Britain than almost anywhere else in the industrialised world, research has shown. Newborn children in Canada, the UK and Italy topped a survey