Pupils at Wimbledon High School achieve some of the highest grades in the UK- but now they are being taught how to fail. ‘Failure week’ is about teaching young women that failing is an acceptable, normal and healthy part of life. They will learn how to cope with failure through a series of assemblies, workshops read more »

According to a recent survey by the University of West England (UWE), a staggering four out of five British men are unhappy with their bodies. Of the 384 British men studied for the survey, 35% of them said they would happily exchange a year of their life for the ideal body shape. The survey showed read more »

NUS warns that more and more students in England are turning to dangerous methods in order to afford the £9000 a year University fees. According to the English Collective of Prostitutes, which runs a helpline for people working in the sex industry, the number of calls it receives from students has at least doubled over read more »

Plastered across a bus-stop near you: life-sized glamour models promoting breast augmentation in a new campaign now banned by the advertising watchdog. In a deliberate twist on woman’s magazine ‘Cosmopolitan’, Edinburgh based ‘Spire Healthcare cosmetic surgery’ has produced a fictional cover titled ‘Cosmetic’. The cover shows a young female model in a cleavage-enhancing top, along read more »

According to the Department for Health, by 2050 the obesity crisis could be costing the NHS double what it is now. In order to deal with the rapidly spreading crisis, experts are now recommending that all GP surgeries put together a team of specialist GPs, nurses and dieticians whose job it is to exclusively tackle read more »

How to Look Good Naked presenter Gok Wan has relaunched his campaign which hopes to see the introduction of body image classes in schools throughout the UK. The campaign was fuelled by Wan’s personal experiences of being bullied whilst at school for being too tall, mixed race and overweight, leading to the development of low read more »

Research has revealed that jet set adverts for cars, champagne, gadgets and holidays can be as damaging to a woman’s body confidence as adverts featuring airbrushed images of ‘perfect’ women. The study in question which is to be published in the British Journal of Social Psychology asked 155 women aged 18 – 32 to view read more »