PEN comment: as usual a great range of activity from Futurelab. Good to see some familiar faces at the Challenging Learner Voice Conference.   Million Futures: what are your hopes

Conservative Education and Skills Policy: The State of Play Campaign for Learning 19 Buckingham Street London WC2N 6EF 9-Sep-2008 National Policy Seminar (South) Campaign for Learning 19 Buckingham Street London

Promoting Pupil Wellbeing: A DCSF Consultation. 19 September 2008 Forthcoming policy event on Promoting Pupil Wellbeing: A DCSF Consultation. At the launch last month of the consultation into the

Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org   Court Reverses, Declares Homeschooling Legal in California A California court Friday reversed its previous ruling and decided that most forms of homeschooling are legal. -- USA

The UK’s largest ever survey of student finance, published today on Push.co.uk reveals that students who started at university last year can expect to owe over £17,500 by

Voice your opinion on children’s mental health- join YoungMinds national advisory panel Very Important Kids   This September YoungMinds, the children’s mental health charity is searching for 15, 5-25 year

A new article entitled Initial thoughts on Children Missing Education Consultation has been posted on the EO Campaign website,

The 12th annual international Montessori Foundation & The International Montessori Council conference will be held in St. Petersburg, Florida USA from October 30 through November 2nd. The full conference

Preparations are underway for Kick It Out's 'One Game, One Community' weeks of action, one of the country's largest community engagement and equality initiatives.   During the period, this year

Thanks to Alan Clawley for the following review:  Thomas, Alan and Pattison, Harriet, “How Children Learn at Home” (Continuum, 2008. ISBN: 9780826479990) This is a welcome addition to the growing body

This release is available at: http://www.webitpr.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=9533     The Kids Are Alright! Annual Realtime Generation Survey Reveals 13 - 17 Year Olds Are Tech Savvy, Secure And Demanding * Social 'not' working - Majority

Skomer Island turns high tech to beam wildlife into classrooms and across the world Schoolchildren can now get a close up experience of the wildlife on Skomer Island without

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE/FULL PROFESSOR, CHILDHOOD STUDIES.  As part of an ongoing, multi-year effort to build its growing program, the Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey invites applications

TES Education 2008 – Visit the Ultimate Childcare and Education Show in London this Autumn Event:             TES Education 2008 Date:               10 & 11 October 2008 Location:        National Hall, Olympia, London TES Education

 AERO - Education Revolution: www.edrev.org/fre.html for the online version.   August e-news AERO Course Enrollment, Second Announcement Place Nice New Vision for Schools Proposes Broad Role School of

BT has released new research revealing that 97 per cent of primary and secondary school teachers believe that young people, often the internet expert in the home, can

Wayne Jennings flags up the new IALA website and continues with the following news items IALA is

Nearly half (46 %) of parents contacting YoungMinds Parents Information Service for advice are worried about their 12-16 year olds, latest statistics show, while almost a third (31.3

Thanks to Iris Harrison for alerting us to this blog item. A really interesting article from a US unschooler who tried school. Read Kevin Snavley's experiences and thoughts.

The Posit Science Corporation - July e-news.   Watch and Learn We’ve all heard that practice makes perfect, but can simply watching an activity make you better at it? A

Thanks to Karen Turner for bringing this to our attention. We have featured Sir Ken's entertaining videos before. This one is a few years old but nonetheless watchable!

US Exams Company to be put into Special Measures? “… schools have to revolve around the demands of simplistic little tests made on their pupils; where those tests can

First 'Hybrid' Courses; Now, a 'Hybrid' School New 'bricks and clicks' high school offers unique blend of face-to-face and online instruction. The University of Hawaii at Manoa

A new article entitled Consultation on scrapping Income Support has been posted on the EO Campaign website,