Daily Mail: Part-time pupils: children will not have to attend all their lessons under new government plans

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Part-time pupils: children will not have to attend all their lessons under new government plans 
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk The flexi-schooling plan, set to be introduced by September 2011, is part of a package aimed at strengthening home education.

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Flexischooling is a concept long championed by CPE-PEN. Way back in 1988 Roland Meighan wrote Flexischooling. Education for tomorrow, starting yesterday (Education Now Books). The idea of flexischooling should be part of the development of choice and alternatives that lead ultimately to a truly Personalised Educational Landscape. Flexischooling has been and is working in various situations for many years but it remains a very much unknown and relies upon goodwill of schools to make it work. If these plans do anything to bring the notion of Flexischooling to a wider auidience this is to be welcomed. The more people who begin to challenge taken for granted assumptions about the nature of learning and education the better. The more who then look to creating truly personalised learning journeys based on the needs and aspirations of young people and their own timescales then the we really begin to see opportunities for transforming education and society.