Free books for schools! The Times and The Sunday Times Books for Schools is back  “I’m always in favour of people who want to give books to children. Hooray! More

Fuji Montessori Kindergarten from Montessori Foundation Online News December 2008.(Montessori Foundation: http://www.montessori.org/) Fuji Montessori Kindergarten in the Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa has recently moved into innovative new architect-designed

In a landmark decision made today, European judges backed the rights of about a million innocent people, including tens of thousands of innocent children, who have had their

PEN Comment: interesting article that could have come from the pen of our own Roland Meighan ! A Teacher Questions Compulsory Schooling Imagine what would happen if our current compulsory

An interesting Item highlighted in Edutopia's December 3rd e-news from the Edutopia blog by Ben Johnson (2/12/2008). This quote will give you a flavour: 'So, now, let's get back

Adult skills at the crossroads: what's in store for 2009? 16 December 2008, 2pm - 4pm London, £99 plus VAT Following the Queen's speech and with the recent publication of the

The Skills Paradox: Confronting inequality in adult learning 11 December, Demos Demos is launching a new pamphlet confronting inequality in adult learning.  The Skills Paradox warns that Britain faces a

The new handbook, ‘Promoting Transformative Innovation in Schools’, is designed to prompt debate around the nature and purpose of innovation in schools. It aims to offer evidence, insights,

Director of Tide~ £37,161 – £41,602 [pay award pending] Tide~ global learning is a network of teachers and other educators responding to the educational implications of global dimensions, development perspectives and

By Tamar Lewin. Tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, while median family income rose 147 percent.

Ho Ho Ho,The Christmas lights are up on the High Street and the mince pies are selling like hot cakes. School of Everything has got into

Due to the success of this year’s Manchester based event, League Football Education (LFE) has announced that ‘Progression 09 – The Careers Events’ will expand to be held

National Learning Forum: The Impact of Learning on Change and Change on Learning London - 25 February 2008 9.30am - 4.30pm The Campaign for Learning's National Learning Forum will debate

BETT 2009 – leading technology in education for 25 years BETT has proven itself to be the world’s leading technology in education event for the last 25 years and

Thanks to Ben Ballin for this notification This Seminar is part of the programme for a research link between CIER and the Comparative, International and Development Education Centre, University

Celebration of AERO's 20th anniversary. Conference theme is "Educational Alternatives: Past, Present, & Future."  Detailed information can be found on

Thanks to Zena from the Chard Home Education Centre (http://www.homeeducationcentre.org.uk/) for the link to their blog and details / photographs from our recent joint Learning Exchange. Go

Many thanks to Paul Henderson for the following: I'd like to draw your attention to a fascinating collection of articles in the 18th of October special issue of New

Learner engagement This report provides educators working within primary, secondary, further and higher education with a guide to how learner voice is currently being used to shape policy and

PEN Comment: Some intersting items in this November  e-news from Antidote. Sign up to their e-news http://www.antidote.org.uk/index.html Antidote's new logo!  Schooltale  Wellbeing Indicators: Schools not to be judged  Assessment for Learning

Bullying is still a big concern for parents, says YoungMinds. Anti Bullying Week 17-21 November 2008 YoungMinds’ Parents Information Service took over 200 calls last year on bullying, and

‘Are we there yet?’: The way forward for Children’s Trusts. 28 November 2008. 2pm – 4pm The Children’s Plan expected “local authorities and their strategic partners in Children’s Trusts

'Listening to Children: Research and Consultation' is a ten-week training course designed for those who work with children and young people and want to improve their skills of

YoungMinds, the children’s leading mental health charity, has received £2.5 million from the Big Lottery Fund’s Young People’s Fund 2 (YPF2) National Grants programme to ensure 2,700 children