News items for July What do you want to learn? Now you can tell the world what you want to learn. School of Everything just launched personal profiles: http://www.schoolofeverything.com/blog/whatdoyoureallywantlearn Everything

A website for teachers, parents, young people and others with an interest in dyslexia was launched earlier this month  by Sir Jim Rose as part of his review

Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education. University of Leeds  CCHRE has a part-time (50%) post for a research officer from September 2008 to work on a European Commission

Barnsley Council's new e-mentoring scheme is now available in every school in Barnsley.  The scheme is being provided by Truancy Call Ltd and here is a summary of

Press Release: Children’s workforce lacks training in mental health, says YoungMinds In response to the Governments independent review of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) YoungMinds, the children’s

The Centre for Personalised Education - Personalised Education Now and Educational Heretics Press willl be holding a learning exchange in Sedbergh on Setember 6th 2008. This continues our current

Personalised Learning: Taking Choice Seriously edited by Mark Webster. What happens if you start to take choice in education seriously? This was the theme of a challenging

Futurealab website:  http://www.futurelab.org.uk/ Futurelab e-newsletter 48 July 2008. Items include: Challenging Learner Voice - 23 October Futurelab's autumn conference will take place on 23 October at Warwick University Conference Park.

National Learning Forum Can We Learn Our Way to Happiness? London 02 October 2008 The Campaign for Learning is hosting a National Learning Forum to debate the need for wellbeing

Roland and Janet Meighan and myself attended HESFES 2008 on 28/29th June ( http://www.hesfes.co.uk/ ). It's become one

Scotland's national home education support organisation Schoolhouse has announced it is to host a major conference in

Antidote http://www.antidote.org.uk/ Antidote’s aim is to create an emotionally literate society, where

 Young Children and Racial Justice by Jane Lane is published by The National Children’s Bureau and is available now from Central Books (£19.20 NCB members/ £23.99

Two particularly interesting articles from IALA ( http://www.learningalternatives.net/  ) in July - Singapore: Teach Less, Learn More and Democratic

Adult Learning: vive la revolution, 2 - 4pm, 17 July 2008 Following DIUS's consultations on informal learning and the statutory right to

'Wisdom of the (Multi) Ages: Students Learn by Teaching' http://www.edutopia.org/multiage-classroom-looping-peer-mentoring An interesting article by Molly Jackel on how

Edutopia news linked to this CBS news video

Futurelab's bi-annual magazine features articles on the Children's Plan, the Primary Capital Programme, compulsory post-16 education, learners as co-designers, robots in education, and

Beyond Current Horizons is a joint programme conducted by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and education innovators Futurelab. The programme is tasked with building a

Global Children, Global Media Migration, Media and Childhood. Liesbeth de Block, David Buckingham Children today are growing up in a world of global media. Many have also become global

The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner: How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools. Fascinating article by Mark Prensky essentially about learner voice. Challenges mainstream educators to listen.  http://www.edutopia.org/ikid-digital-learner-technology-2008 'We treat

The government is expected to publish its green paper on welfare reform in the middle of June. This event will examine the green paper, assess its

BESA are urgently calling on teachers and educators to visit the just-released online survey at http://commission.eduresearch.org.uk/ to add their voice

Mental Health – Supporting Young Minds

With 10% of all children in schools reported to be suffering from mental