After being punished for wearing shorts on the hottest day so far this year, four year nine pupils at Brighton's Longhill High School showed up the next day wearing skirts. The cheeky pupils opted ...

However, parents said that most of those given detentions were girls, who were told that their skirts were too short. The school's rules state that skirts should be no shorter than 5cm above the knee.

A primary school has proposed a complete ban on skirts - as pupils are wearing them too short. Newquay Junior Academy in Cornwall has written to parents to say that it hopes to enforce the skirt ...

We ask if it’s right to ban skirts in school. Joining us to debate the subject, is Dr Rowena Blencowe, the headmistress of Trentham High School, who believes that banning skirts is the only ...