An increasing number of digital and creative companies are setting up as co-operatives, boosting the UK co-ops scene
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In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Emma Young finds out how they did it, and why other countries aren’t following suit
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We spend a day with Neil Monaghan, who heads up operations at the Archway Project in Thamesmead, London. It teaches disadvantaged and disabled young people how to fix motorbikes – and alters their lives in the process. He knows it works, because it transformed him, too
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The biggest mistakes young people make are focusing way too much on qualifications and accruing the wrong kind of capital. They prioritize the job that will pay them the most money now rather than the one that will open the most doors.
So, how do you get ahead when you have “nothing” to offer?
Staff at a US high school created an environment built on empathy and redemption. Using a framework called trauma-informed care, they acknowledged childhood trauma when addressing behavioural issues – and suspensions dropped by 85 per cent in just a year
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Experts agree that children have far too little contact with the natural world. Could lessons about flora and fauna – a natural history GCSE – be the answer?
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Mary Colwell is the driving force behind a petition to urge the government to develop a GCSE in natural history. She explains why she believes the qualification could address conservation apathy
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A not-for-profit organisation in California is helping prepare young people of colour for careers in technology. We go behind the scenes at Hack the Hood
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We meet the photographer who captured a young Kurdish-Syrian superhero at a refugee camp in GreeceThe post Resilience in a Greek refugee camp: the ‘boy of steel’ appeared first on Positive News.
With both youth depression and youth unemployment on the rise, calls are growing for a different kind of learning. Could ‘positive education’ enhance not just wellbeing, but academic performance too?The post New school rules? Swotting up on ‘positive education’ appeared first on Positive News.
