Debate surrounding the amount – and type – of homework set for children has intensified in recent years, particularly in primary schools. Credit: Photo: Alamy Primary-age pupils should be effectively ...

HOMEWORK – few like it, many hate it. It can help children develop study skills, and to build on their classroom learning. But it can cause undue stress, eat away at leisure and family time and is not ...

Traditional homework set by primary schools should be scrapped because there is little evidence it helps children learn and it can increase stress in families, according to a Government body. The ...

Coaxing teenagers to sit down and do their homework is never an easy task. But is it actually worth their while to slave away for hours on end every evening? Not according to a new study of Spanish ...

GROWING up, we probably all remember the Sunday afternoon feeling of dread sitting down to complete whatever dreary English essay or maths equations we had been set as homework. However it seems it ...

Why are we asking this question now? A new study to be published in the UK this spring claims that too much study after school turns children off education and sparks family rows. The book, The ...