Mr Hinds and the Home Learning Environment
What’s been said? Home education has generally had a rough ride over recent years as far as media reporting goes, being frequently rubbished without proper consideration or dismissed as a no-hope option. …
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The True Freedom of Home Education
What’s been said? In February 2018, the BBC website posted a video describing the experience of unschooling. The parent concerned feels that unschooling differs from home education in that her children can …
Some Truths About Exclusions
What’s been said? The BBC’s World at One programme on 11 June ran a lengthy feature article on the issue of school exclusions, in advance of an Education Select Committee report due …
The Times, Home Education and Fake News
What’s been said? When The Times (28 April) reported “Police track hundreds of ‘invisible’ home-schoolers” we commented that this appeared to be another sensational headline from a once highly respected newspaper. Since …
Police track hundreds of ‘invisible’ home-schoolers
What’s been said? On Saturday 28 April, The Times published a report with the above headline. It states that “For the first time officers have begun conducting welfare checks on homeschooled children …
Home Education Makes (Radio) Waves
What’s been said? Home educators began to sense something was up with the BBC on Wednesday 25 April 2018 when a theme began to emerge, across the country, of home educators being …