Browsing: Girls

Hayley ClarkeEducation reporterPAGirls are more likely to pass their GCSEs than boys. This year, like every year, that remained the case – with 70.5% of girls’…

Mostly, I remember the fluffy pens. When I was in elementary and middle school, nothing could be cooler than a fluffy pen, at least until it…

Boys and girls should be taught together in mixed classes about menstruation to help reduce the stigma, secrecy and disinformation which still surrounds periods, according to…

Kate Price is now an academic, but it was at six that she conducted her first piece of research, leaning into the cab of her father’s…

Getty ImagesMaths is a significant contributor to high A-level grades overall as 16.7% of all maths entries scored an A* this year, compared to 9.4% of…

Ben GodfreyBBC Midlands TodayFamilyGlen and Sharon Markey – pictured with their late daughter Helena – are petitioning the government over their call for schools to notify…

A decision by the US government to incinerate more than $9.7m of contraceptives is projected to result in 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions in…

My earliest reading memory I have a distinct memory of sitting by the bookshelves in the first house we lived in and suddenly realising I could understand the words in…

The BBC World Service has pieced together the stories of Layan al-Majdalawi, two, and Mira Tanboura, six, both killed in Gaza in separate incidents in November…

Newborn babies lie in bassinets in the nursery of a postpartum recovery center in upstate New York in 2017. A new study examined births over decades…