Dare to Know

Ha, got it, despite being in electricity-free zone! At first glance, the news of the recently re-framed consultation appears to represent a ...

There'll be no hope whatsoever of an internet connection for the next week. Will be back after that.

Looks as if the opportunity to develop social skills in an unstructured, autonomous way will be taken away from the children who attend The...

I almost daren't show Dd the video here for fear that her life's course will henceforth be decided! Home schooling is only mentione...

Now this is some of what I meant to say in a slightly over-heated conversation with one of the few very successful products of the educatio...

Following the tragic news of yet another school-related bullycide , "Dr Stuart Newton, a retired headteacher and current part-time teac...

Below, with many thanks to HEors elsewhere for providing considerable amounts of inspiration for these answers, is an updated draft of a res...

Just saw this in the Psychologist (thanks SF): The sad truth is that lecturing is easier than the alternatives, and lecturers can always kid...

Comments please... = = = = = = = = Dear Elaine Haste, Further to the prospective consultation on "light touch changes to the monitoring...

Look what ARCH found in Children Now . "The point is that society will only be inclusive if everyone is offered a choice in their educ...

PRESS RELEASE from Action for Home Education. MEDIA INFORMATION FROM ACTION FOR HOME EDUCATION: For immediate release, Tuesday 24th April 20...

...in the TES , and this one was published in addition to the missives from Freedom for Children to Grow and Pete. Well said, the HE commun...

According to a report in a Christian magazine, Melissa Busekros, the German home schooled child who was taken from her family and forcibly ...

A recent Freedom of Information request from a home educator to the DfES enquiring about the thinking behind the proposed consultation on i...

Someone is going to have to explain to me how hiring a head from a private company is going to make the slightest bit of difference when ev...

Sigh....oh dear, here we go yet again. As a perpetuation of a number of broadly erroneous myths about home education, you couldn't go fa...

Late notice, but hey, flexibility is what Home Education is all about: "Alton Towers has a fiery red hot offer to celebrate England...

From The Citizen , we hear with regard to the sentencing of Eunice Spry, that the judge "condemned social services and health workers w...

The news that the European Court of Human Rights has awarded an employee £6000 as a result of her employers reading her private e-mails, we...

Terri from ARCH will be speaking, so it has to be good! = = = = = = = = = = = = PERSONALISED LEARNING: TAKING CHOICE SERIOUSLY Monday 25th ...