Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Rethinking Children/Childhood in the 21st Century - 2 day conference - 4th & 5th February 2010  This conference will bring together a wide range of

Do click on to these IU articles. Its rare that you find mainstream tackling positively some of the 'holy cows' that constrain our schooling systems. This is progress

On reading this article I was immediately transported to the visions, writing and practice of our own Philip Toogood. He championed the idea of mini-schooling and wrote a manual

UCL Global Disability Research Group Lunchtime seminar. Monday 23rd November 2009. 1-2 pm Looking at Post-Socialist Transformations in Education - What do disabled children get out of it? Andrea Vogt Room

 The New Primary Curriculum and the Cambridge Primary Review London. 26 November 2009, 11am - 1pm. £99 plus VAT **Friends' rate £89.10 plus VAT "call for lessons to begin at

23.11.2009 A new article entitled Impact Assessment link has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 19.11.2009 A new article entitled New law Announced 2 weeks Before Response to Consultation

‘Staggering’ Crisis in U.S. Education Found in Study (Update1)  By Molly Peterson Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- More than two-thirds of U.S. teachers disapprove of how their public schools are run

New thinking??  CPE-PEN supports diveristy in education (edversity) but have specific views and the principles and values on which we build alternatives and choice into a personalised educational

Michael Gove, the Conservative shadow schools secretary, lays out his ideas for children during their earliest years of schooling.

Survival Campaign Progress: Almost Half Way There Through the second week of the AERO Survival Campaign we have now received $9,847 toward our $20,000 goal from 89 people from

10.11.2009 A new article entitled New All Party Parliamentary Group on Home Education has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 10.11.2009 A new article entitled New All Party Parliamentary

Count Every Child - a global birth registration conference on Monday 16 November 2009, Victory Services Club, London. Each year, 51 million children are not registered at birth, directly

Institute of Education, University of London. 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL. ROOM 801 Thursday, 26th November 2009, 5:30—7pm Home education: rights, childhood and policy-making Daniel Monk, Senior Lecturer in Law,

PEN Comment: Really radical visions of learning spaces are unlikely while the compulsory schooling model holds court. Visions of alternatives for everybody all of the time, of an

Sad to see the economic crunch hitting our friends in AERO. We wish them every success in seeing this temporary funding gap through to a successful conclusion. Dear Friends

Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity in Our Big Earth Came across this video from Ken Robisnon 'Creativity, Crux of Education state of public education and its future' on the

31.10.2009 A new article entitled Government Children\'s Czar uses Birmingham case against home education has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 29.10.2009 A new article entitled \"I just wonder

By Derry Hannam. This article appears with thanks and permissions from Derry Hannam and also David Gribble (Lib Ed)  www.­libed.­org.­uk). The article was first published by Lib Ed.

Resources     Citizenship podcast The first in our second series of podcasts looks at the role of citizenship education and addresses the need to look for greater opportunities to encourage

Government plans to regulate home-schooling must be rebuffed, says Philip Johnston.   By Philip Johnston.Published: 6:29AM BST 19 Oct 2009 I attended a talk the other day given by a police

By Sean Coughlan. Education reporter, BBC News. Sunday, 18 October 2009 00:40 UK  Deptford now has more graduates than Winchester, as London draws ahead The qualifications gap between the most

In thrall to the rules. If only I was enough of a rebel to stick up for the kids next door constantly shouted at during netball  Carrie Quinlan The

A new article entitled Sunday Times article by Alex Dowty published today has been posted on the EO Campaign website,  "People who haven't come across home education before seem

It is entirely ironic that while the mainstream world continues to chart its disatisfaction with schools, schooling and learning that it continues to mercilessly hound the home-educated communities. The appalling