First-year students’ schoolbags three times safe weight
The study of 12 to 14-year-olds reveals an average schoolbag weighs 10.35 kilograms, as first-year students have to carry books for up to 19 subjects.
Only three of the 80 students surveyed carried less than 10% of their body weight, as recommended by a 1998 Government working group report on the weight of schoolbags.
