A new survey from Ipsos in the UK, in partnership with The Royal Foundation for Early Years, reveals that while 95% of the public believe early childhood is crucial in shaping a person's future, many parents struggle with modern challenges with 61% of parents of 0-5s saying there isn't enough support available.
Young people from across the UK and some of this country's most respected entrepreneurs today (Thursday 11 May) joined Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street for the launch of "Enterprise Insight".
More than a third of school pupils (36 per cent) have been bullied in the past twelve months, a quarter (26 per cent) have been threatened with violence in school and 13 per cent have been physically attacked, according to a major survey by the 150,000-strong Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).
The link between patterns of truancy and school exclusion and offending by young people is thrown into sharp relief by two surveys carried out by MORI on behalf of the Youth Justice Board.
Young people are turned off by government, citizenship and community. This is revealed today by authors Madsen Pirie and Sir Robert Worcester who unveil the third in their series of reports covering the attitudes and aspirations of young people. Their previous work, The Millennial Generation and The Next Leaders, revealed an ambitious and self-confident generation. Their new work, entitled The Big Turn-Off, is published today by the free market Adam Smith Institute. Based on MORI polls conducted among young people over a 20 month period, it examines their attitudes to government, citizenship and community.
More than three quarters of schoolchildren find learning about the Internet and technology more fun than maths and English. According to research released today, nearly half of all 10 to 16 year olds believe that their school should spend more money on computers than teachers and books. Over half believe they learn more from the Internet than books. The research was conducted by MORI on behalf of Compaq and surveyed over 400 children between the ages of 10 and 16.
Children are turning technological sales, marketing and advertising on its head. Not only are the children of today more switched on to technology, such as computers, the Internet, video games, mobile phones, pagers, etc. than any other generation before - they are now influencing new technologies, and finding uses for the more outdated modes, such as pagers.
