An Interesting Political Initiative
A new and very different HE website appeared on 25 June 2019. Entitled Labour Home Educators, this group identifies itself with one particular political party. The only other comparable group we know …
Category: Great Britain
“So How Do You Socialise Them?”
What’s been said? On 15 April 2019 an article entitled Homeschooled children are far more socially engaged than you might think was published on The Conversation website. It was also picked up …
What Most MPs Know about Home Education
What’s been said? The House of Commons Library published a Briefing Paper on Home Education in England on 23 April 2019. The Summary is available here and the full report may also …
Once Bullied, now a Champion of Personalised Education
What’s been said? On 25 April the Star (Sheffield) carried a report where home education in the form of private tuition became the solution to repeated bullying of a year 9 pupil: …
Home Education Policies in Europe
What’s been said? A thirty-four page document entitled Home Education Policies in Europe was issued in October 2018 by the Publications Office of the European Union. It is part of a range …
Numbers Rising, but the Reasons for Choosing HE are Changing
What’s been said? The Guardian has been publishing articles on HE with some regularity over recent months. A long piece “School is very oppressive: why home-schooling is on the rise” by Sally …