Youth climate change committee aims to connect younger generation with...
New organisation will increase dialogue as research shows that the vast majority of young people believe climate change is an urgent issue
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A new enterprise helps cash-strapped students ‘bedroom swap’ to save money
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Majority of UK children are ‘happy’, finds study
Nine out of ten children in the UK are happy, according to a new report, with an overwhelming number of teenagers being completely content with their friends
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Young people learn more from positive messages than negative warnings
Young people are more likely to pay attention to health and safety campaigns with positive messages than negative warnings, according to new research
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‘Spending more time outside is a really political act’
Children are more disconnected from nature than ever before, new research says. But for one man, these findings present an exciting opportunity to get children into the great outdoors. Laura Smith...
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Students call for shakeup of economics teaching
Mainstream economics teaching fails to address 21st century issues, say students from 41 protest groups around the world
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Catalysing change
Catalyst is a leading five-day residential course for young people aged 18-25, hosted at Embercombe, a educational centre for sustainable living in Devon. Catalyst alumni Jasmine Irving reflects on her...
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‘I want a network of young people creating a different economy’
With young people trapped between unemployment and underemployment, the political response is too paternalistic, says new organisation AltGen. Launching an award for new co-operative enterprises, it is...
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Nature writing resurges despite dictionary cull
As authors protest nature-related words being cut from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, a new breed of writers and publications are using language, and new perspectives, to reinvigorate our relationship...
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The fair trade generation
Young Britons who have grown up in the era of a flourishing fair trade market are highly sensitive to global issues and want to see businesses acting to end inequality and climate change – according to...
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Programme boosts African entrepreneurship
Lacklustre and uninspiring educational facilities in Africa are being given a jump-start to improve literacy and support the change-makers of tomorrow
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Can self-compassion improve wellbeing in teenagers?
New research suggests that treating oneself with kindness and mindfulness is more effective than improving self-esteem when facing the challenges of teenage years
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Young people are changing face of mental health in Lebanon
Tradition, corruption and political negligence continue to stigmatise mental illness, but the new generation is transforming old taboos
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Five inspiring stories for International Youth Day
Today is the fifteenth International Youth Day – a United Nations initiative to raise awareness of youth issues worldwide. To mark the day we've rounded up five of our favourite stories about...
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Could mindfulness make teens more resilient?
A new study on mindfulness aims to find out how it can boost teenagers’ mental health
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Learning is for life, says new alternative education project
Greta Rossi left her career in mainstream higher education to start Akasha Innovation, where a new venture aims to help young people build a better future for themselves and generations to come
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Five stories to make back to school bearable
With the majority of UK schools now back after the summer break, we round up our favourite stories highlighting some of the positive changes being made in education
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Academia and allotments: the students growing their own food
Thanks to a growing awareness of sustainability issues, students around the country are swapping evenings on cheap beer for afternoons spent growing their own fruit and veg. Natalie Leal looks at the...
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Meet the young ocean advocates aiming to change marine conservation for the...
Feeling excluded from traditional routes of marine protection, a new wave of young activists with an entrepreneurial spirit are going it alone and taking the future of the oceans into their own hands
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