Tuesday, November 18, 2014

A Warning Shot

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This blog has been pretty quiet lately, mainly because perforce, it mutated into a campaign blog fighting to protect the right of families t...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

URGENT: Please respond to a consultation against further cuts to legal aid.

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The following is a request from a solicitor who has supported many home educators over the years: URGENT: please consider responding to a...
Sunday, June 01, 2014

Paula Rothermel's Response to the Northern Ireland Consultation

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..can be read here: http://www.hedni.org/2014/05/consultation-response-dr-paula-rothermel
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Friday, May 23, 2014

Home Education Explained (on TV...FINALLY!)

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Wow wow wow!!! Mark Wright experiences a volte-face on the subject of home education, starting at about 57 mins in. Ex home educator Christ...
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

The Welfare Thing (Northern Ireland)

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Following on from the guest post at Sometimes it's Peaceful , which explained the background and much of the current situation regardin...
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More on the Northern Ireland Situation

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The background and current situation regarding the proposed new policy on Home Education is lucidly explained in this guest post by Sarah D...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Now for the Good News! Local Authorities, Please Note.

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After yesterday's disappointing news regarding the proposed Home Education policy changes in N. Ireland, it is great to hear that thing...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

Now the turn of Northern Irish Home Educators.

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Just after receiving confirmatio n that the Welsh Assembly has dropped plans to legislate to bring in compulsory registration of Welsh Home ...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

French Home Educators' badly needing our help!

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Approx translation:   "We want to get the complete abandonment of the legislation which proposes to limit the option of home education...
Monday, November 25, 2013

13 year old unschooler does TEDx

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Here. 
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Flexi-schooling Update: 2013

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From a letter from Elizabeth Truss to Graham Stuart: "Further to our discussion about flexi-schooling, I would like to clarify the D...
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SEN and HE. Update 2013.

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All is explained in a letter from Edward Timpson to Graham Stuart.
Thursday, June 20, 2013

What Rabbi Sacks should know!

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Oh dear oh dear.  If ever you were to need an exercise in identifying your logical fallacies, you could happily wile away an hour or two on...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Welsh HE Proposals for Registration On Hold.

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So far so good, but Andrew Leighton needs to know that however long he takes, nothing will change the argument. As Mike Fortune Wood said:...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012

AND another one.

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OK, just when you English peeps thought, "Phew, well that's all sorted then ," we have another newly announced consultation o...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Report on Home Education from Education Select Committee

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. ...p ublished today, concludes:  "58. We share the view of our witnesses—home educators and those from central and local Governm...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

The Secret of Education....whatever works!

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Autonomous home educators have been saying it for years, but it seems the rest of the education system may finally be catching up.  The s...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

The Welsh Proposals for Home Education: What to do next.

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(Posted with permission:) What the Welsh Government is proposing and if you are living in Wales, what you can do now the consultation has ...
Monday, November 05, 2012

Petition for Wales....Sign NOW

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The petition to protect freedom of education in Wales  closes midday tomorrow - 6.11.12.  Please sign. You don't have to be in Wales t...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Tablets but no Teachers...will Ethiopian children learn to read?

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They have clearly already learnt a great deal , but it is early days yet.  Will these children in remote, illiterate communities be able to...