After two years of hard research, the Beyond Current Horizons (BCH) project - looking at the future of education beyond 2025 - has drawn to a close. The

YoungMinds calls for high-profile campaign to end stigma of young people’s mental health problems Mental health charity, YoungMinds launch  four pledges today in Parliament for politicians to take urgent

International Day Conference Wednesday, 14th April 2010 10:00-16:30 CLARKE HALL. Institute of Education, Bedford Way, London WC1 0AL  Children’s Rights and War  Wars and conflict affect children in numerous ways. They are

London set for Swedish schools  By Angela Harrison. Education reporter, BBC News  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8419291.stm   Academies are seen as a main vehicle for driving up standards  A private Swedish company is to open

School reward culture is 'harming education' education is being undermined by the growing “reward culture” in schools, according to leading academics.

Opinion: Home education- Home Ed student, 14, offered place at Cambridge From the Digital Journal http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/285253  Paul makes some useful points which we would agree with. Undoubtedly home-based education

07.01.2010 A new article entitled Minority Groups Affected by the Government Home Education Proposals has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 06.01.2010 A new article entitled Education Otherwise Statement

Mentioning book reviews in the AERO newsletter below I'm sure folks have noticed the  lack of reviews these days (certainly in UK). Broadsheets, Times Educational Supplement feature few

To further support AERO please find below the whole contents of their latest e-newsletter. I'm sure readers will be interested in following up subscriptions (hard copy or PDF)

Creative Communities: Learning for Change  Happy New Year from the Creative Communities Unit at Staffordshire University. We have an Open Day with a Free Taster Workshop and a range

Full Time FE from 14: Giving Real Choice to 14 Year Olds 12 January, 11am - 1pm, London £99 plus VAT **Friends' rate £89.10 plus VAT The Conservatives announced at their

Have you undertaken insightful research on children's relationships? Are you a postgraduate student and/or early on in your career as a researcher?  If so, the Centre for Research

The Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth presents a   “CHILD PARTICIPATION WORKSHOP”  DATE:  Tuesday 26th January 2010  VENUE:  ICOSS, The University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP  TIME: 10.30

Extract from Education Revolution E-News 21.12.2009 On December 19th I drove up to Ashfield, Massachusetts to participate in Mary Leue's 90th birthday celebration. Mary is the founder of Albany's

We received the following in December and are currently responding to it. However, we would encourage as many of the network who feel able to do likewise. As you

We're delighted to support and publicise a new book edited by our friend Dr Richard House and his colleague Prof Del Loewenthal. A new book calls for a greater

From the Innovation Unit 17.12.2009. Credit where its due... good to see Innovation Unit looking further afield. Co-operative ideas are important in the landscape of education and learning

From AERO E-News 14.12.2009. We're delighted the AERO survival campaign has succeeded in such a quick time. We are happy to tell you that AERO has reached its goal

Learning to Learn: the voice of the learner 10 December 2009, 10am - 3pm (refreshments from 9.30am) The Beehive Research Centre, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NE1 7RU £150 plus VAT This

With thanks to Peter van Zuidam for this link. Study Shows Home-Educated Become Model Citizens http://www.hslda.ca/cche_research/2009Study.pdf A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Home Education reveals that

The latest issue of the International Association for Learning Alternatives Newsletter at www.learningalternatives.net contains items on how technology may revolutionize education with some astonishing findings, shows specific

 The Campaign for Learning are holding two policy events on the 12 January to look at two of the Conservative Party's proposals for FE. Giving Real Choice to 14

Encouraging news with AEROs Campaign... Survival Campaign: Almost There! The AERO Survival Fund Campaign is getting close to its goal. We have $1,418 more to go this week to match

With thanks to Paul Henderson for this Quiz time! Spot the replacement words in these corrupted quotes – bonus points if you can deduce what the original words were. “Learning