The Language of Statism
Do the Education Secretary’s words demonstrate that the Government believes in the primacy of families, or will his rhetoric fade away in the future reality of policies such as a register of …
Category: England
Academic warns against ill-informed and prejudicial policy-making
Leading academic urges Halfon not to squander the opportunity to make England a world leader in flexible, individualised education What’s been said? Dr Harriet Pattison is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood …
Education Committee’s Report is not What it Says on the Tin
Identifying the unexplained assumption which lay behind the Education Committee’s inquiry into Home Education. What’s been said? When the Education Select Committee announced its inquiry into “Home Education,” we encouraged home educating …
Orchestrated Lobbying Conflates Home Education with “Illegal Schools”
Members of an All Party Parliamentary Group outnumber other speakers by two to one in response to Lord Soley’s Oral Question What’s been said? The name on the House of Lords order …
Assessments, inspections and standardisation for home educated children is extremely likely
Leading academic urges Education Secretary to listen to home educators and engage with research into home education ahead of introducing register. What’s been said? On 13 July the Daily Mail published an …
Amanda Spielman on Monitoring and Civil Liberties
Ofsted’s Chief Inspector expresses her frustrations that traditional British values work against the registration and monitoring of home educated children What’s been said? Despite its failures to provide a formal response to …