Lord knows

A piece in the UK Independent today reports that Prof. Lord Richard Layard thinks school children should be taught how to be happy.

According to the Indie, the Prof, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE), "believes that the lessons should be compulsory and that teachers should be given special training in the art of making pupils happy."

It adds: "He cites evidence that shows the number of 16-year-olds with serious emotional problems has grown from 10 per cent to 17 percent between 1986 and 2000."

Seven years on, what might the stats say?