UK schools worst in EU for bullying


	UK schools worst in EU for bullying
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2-29-2008 10:12 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/400982d3-696d-4cd7-8ca6-a6df904e0735/5224078A-23D8-4EE6-8656-F0FDBB98D89F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews" href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews" style="font-size: 11px;">education.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews"><H1>UK schools worst in Europe for bullying</H1>
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<B>An</B></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Bullying in secondary schools is worse in the UK than the rest of Europe, a new British Council survey has found</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">The study, published today, found that nearly half of UK secondary school pupils (46%) think that bullying is a problem in their school and is caused by students' language difficulties, skin colour, race and religion</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">UK students (42%) said they were happier in school most of the time than on average in the rest of Europe (33%)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">They were also more likely to feel it was "very important" to their future to do well at school: 85% of UK pupils compared to 75% of European</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Italy - 33%<BR />Portugal - 35%<BR />Netherlands - 16%<BR />Belgium - 21%<BR />UK - 48%<BR />Scotland - 43%<BR />Wales - 32%<BR />Germany - 29%<BR />Spain - 22%</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">A total of 3,500 children were asked a series of multiple-choice questions, including over 1,500 from the UK</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">41% of respondents said they had been made fun of because of language difficulties</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">31% said skin colour</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">29%</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">racial difference</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">27%</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2261122,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">religion</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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