Schools and Education

Food that is served in the education system and its nutritional value is a widely researched topic and is very popular as a choice for a dissertation. Take a look at some of our examples:

Example schools and education dissertation topic 1:

Prohibiting school lunchboxes to improve nutritional intake.

In February 2013 it was announced that the Education Department of the Coalition Government was considering banning packed lunches within the maintained sector as a move to improve the nutrition of British children. Regardless of nostalgic longings for plum duff and rice pudding, this dissertation addresses the nutritional arguments in favour of standardising lunch-time meals for the nation’s children and ensuring, through the elimination of the lunchbox, so as to ensure that all children receive a nutritionally balanced hot meal at least once per day. This is a dissertation that as well as building on existing secondary data would benefit from the undertaking of primary interviews with both parents and pupils.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Devi, A., Surender, R. and Rayner, M. (2010). Improving the food environment in UK schools: Policy opportunities and challenges. Journal of Public Health Policy, 31(2), pp. 212-226.
• O’Brien, N., Roe, C. and Reeves, S. (2002). A quantitative nutritional evaluation of a healthy eating intervention in primary school children in a socioeconomically disadvantaged area: A pilot study. Health Education Journal, 61(4), pp. 320-328.
• Paton, G. (2013). Schools ‘should ban unhealthy packed lunches’. The Daily Telegraph, 10th February 2013.