Covid-19, GCSEs and Home Education
Government and Ofqual exploring options for awarding grades to home educated students What’s been said? How society has changed in the last week! Recently we reported on a chain of cloned local …
Tag: Dispatches
Home Education ‘Graduates’ and the World of Work
Setting the record straight What’s been said? On 12 November 2019, the Swindon Advertiser published an article on Susan Walklate, a former home-educating mum who has written a book, Radical Home Education, …
The World Makes a Great Classroom!
Rediscovering the joy of learning through World-schooling What’s been said? A Shropshire Star story on 19 October 2019 about Telford mum, Lea Beven, and her 7-year old son Harrison, reports how they …
Parents Hit Back at Children’s Commissioner’s Criticism
What’s been said? In the wake of the Children’s Commissioner’s full-frontal attack on home educators, parents have been making their views known through local media. Four days after Anne Longfield’s report was …
Longfield Seeks to Justify Herself
What’s been said? On 13 February a “response to feedback” about Anne Longfield’s report and C4 programme was published on the Children Commissioner’s website. This is something of a curate’s egg – …
Home Truths: the Rise of Home Education
What’s been said? “The recent growth in the number of children being educated at home is a cause of concern for some, yet many parents say they have little choice but to …