Today Hasn't Been a Good News Day for British School Kids

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A new report that ranks worldwide numeracy and literacy levels has found that young people in England are the most illiterate in the developed world.

The OECD, which published the report, said teenagers in England aged 16 to 19 were judged to have the worst literacy levels and the second-worst numeracy levels of the 23 developed nations studied.

What that means in practise, according to the OECD, is that these teenagers might "struggle to estimate how much petrol is left in the petrol tank from a sight of the gauge, or not be able to fully understand instructions on a bottle of aspirin".

In other disappointing young people news, a survey for the ATL teachers union found that four in ten teachers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been subjected to violence from pupils in the last year, with 90 percent of staff surveyed saying they have had to deal with challenging behaviour, like students swearing at them in class.

Forty-five percent of those surveyed said they believe pupil behaviour has got worse over the past two years.