New York Times Editorial – Selling Obesity at School

Obesity in western cultures is at crises point. While much of the world struggles to get enough to eat the west goes headlong into unhealthy food consumption, food addictions and super-size portions. The implications for current and future health provision are […]

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Press release: UniServity’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ project opens a new world of 21st Century learning opportunities

Ground-breaking UniServity cLc Learning Platform Project opens a new world of cross-curricular and cross-cultural 21st Century learning opportunities for 10,000 students globally UniServity, the market leading Learning Platform provider

Press release: Schools should be embracing Twitter – Futurelab’s new handbook offers practical guidance on digital inclusion

One of the ways to offer a truly inclusive education for all young people is to embrace their diverse learning needs and encourage active participation on popular social

The Human Greatness Group

The Human Greatness Group may interest people within the PEN network and beyond. It comprises a USA based network of Researchers, Professors, Parents and Teachers concerned to modernize

The School Calendar

One of the ways mainstream schooling systems can begin to look at more radical transformations is by thinking about the whole idea of the school calendar. In the

Press release: Project Zero Film – In Response to Student Feedback

Plymouth, Devon. Research by BECTA has highlighted a discrepancy between the way school children are taught and the way they prefer to be taught.  The research report ‘Web

Futurelab: New FREE handbook on curriculum and teaching innovation

Futurelab has just published a new report on curriculum and teaching innovation that is intended to provide guidance for educators interested in exploring the potential of personalisation to

CfL: Events – Informal Adult Learning and 3-19 Education

The Informal Adult Learning White Paper - Learning Revolution or too little, too late? 24 April, 11am - 1pm, London £99 plus VAT **Friends' rate £89.10 plus VAT Following the publication

Press release: MOD announces a dynamic 21st Century Learning Environment for its overseas Service schools

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) announce a strategic educational partnership with UniServity, the leading Learning Platform provider, to support and enhance teaching and learning for children and families

AERO April E-News: Education Circle of Change by Isaac Graves

I recently returned from a very interesting gathering called, Education Circle of Change. “The Education Circle of Change is an initiative to advance existing movement building in education

Home schooling – a vision of the future? Telegraph 11th April 2009

James Bartholomew, Telegraph 11th April 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/5136420/Home-schooling---a-vision-of-the-future.html We'd certainly subscribe to the sentiments in this article. We have long argued that we have much to learn from home-based education. Let

Press release: UK Teachers now sharing over one million classroom resources every month on TES Connect

8 April, 2009: TSL Education announces over one million monthly downloads

Futurelab: E-news issue 57 April 2009

Two interesting items caught the eye. New handbook: Curriculum and teaching innovation Aimed at educational leaders involved in curriculum and teaching innovation, this new handbook provides guidance for exploring the

Opposition to testing grows both sides of the Atlantic

The recent mutterings about testing boycotts in England appears to be growing. It was interesting then to read in AERO's April 7 e-news about mounting opposition to No

InspirED e-news March 2009

Issue 3, March 2009. Futurelab's  InspirED - a collection of news and stories to inspire anyone interested in innovative approaches to teaching and learning. This site is updated

AERO – New website

After months of planning AERO is proud to announce the launch of our newly re-designed website,

CPE-PEN Learning Exchange – Loughborough 5th April

Our latest learning exchange was a very successful day. For the first time CPE-PEN conducted its AGM within the proceedings. Network members heard inputs accounting the latest work from

Life Media April News: Unschooling as the Ultimate Feminist Act

Some people think, stereotypically, that women who choose to work at home so they can facilitate life learning for their children are regressively un-feminist. So unschooling pioneer and

EO Campaign website: Council pays home educators

A new article entitled Council Gives Home Educating Parents £10,000 to Pay for Tutor has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. This really is a first! Poisoned

EO: Campaign website news

A new article entitled Over three thousand people signed the petition challenging the Home Education Review has been posted on the EO Campaign website,

AERO – New blog

AERO's Blog: Contains Link to Free Full-Length 2008 AERO Keynote Talks Including Deborah Meier   AERO has just re-launched its blog which will now be updated on a weekly, if

Press release: Informal adult learning should target the socially excluded, and make the most of new technologies to level the learning playing field.

The message comes from UK online centres, who today welcomed John Denham’s White Paper, which puts informal learning and widening participation firmly back on the adult skills agenda.  Managing

IALA E-News March 2009

 Alternative Education: Standards, Descriptions,

Response to Bernard Trafford from Roland Meighan

Roland Meighan, one of our CPE-PEN trustees and directors responds to Bernard Trafford's Guardian letter. Dr Roland Meighan  D.Soc.Sc., Ph.D., B.Sc.(Soc)., L.C.P., Cert.Ed., and Fellow of the Royal Society of

Bernard Trafford: Guardian letter – Why Point The Finger at home-educators?

The Guardian Tuesday 31st March 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/31/home-schooling  People are likely to stand back and think when Dr Bernard Trafford, one of the UK's leading headteachers speaks out in

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