Some parents and pupils are calling on schools in Greater Manchester to scrap their plans to ban pupils from wearing skirts.

A school has banned pupils from wearing skirts as part of its newly-introduced gender-neutral uniform policy. In 2017, Priory School in Lewes updated its uniform policy to include a rule which ...

While Newhouse Academy in Heywood is far from alone with its plan to ban skirts from September, the move has proved ...

If my own private school in Edinburgh was strict, my daughter’s state Church of England school in London is even stricter. The uniform list is as lengthy as it is pedantic: coats must be black ...

School uniform is a feminist issue, and confining a little girl to a skirt is sheer unkindness. ... Historically, women were forced to wear skirts to conceal the fact that they had legs ...

Parents have criticised a secondary school for “degrading” girls after dozens of pupils were made to line up and have their skirts measured. Teachers at the Ryde Academy on the Isle of Wight ...

The British schoolboys who wore girls' uniform skirts to class to protest a “no shorts” policy during an intense heat wave have won their fight. Dozens of boys at Isca Academy in Exeter said ...

British students at Isca Academy in Exeter, UK, protest their school's uniform rules by wearing skirts to class. Twitter/Simon Hall These British schoolboys are literally skirting the rules. On ...

The school's uniform rules state that skirts must be "on or below the knee", reports BristolLive. ... like a number of other girls in the school, rolled up her skirt to make it shorter.

It can be argued that making girls wear skirts and dresses plays directly into this tension and their fears. In an attempt to support girls exercising more, the Australian government launched a ...