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Ofqual have just updated their guidance for private candidates which will apply to many home educated young people during the Covid-19 crisis. A statement on our updated guidance for private candidates Update on centre assessment grades and Read More …
As if we didn’t already know it, Glasgow City Council hates home educators (or ‘home schoolers’ as they like to misterm them) Their response to last year’s Scottish Government discussion paper in anticipation of the home education guidance review – Read More …
The Coronavirus Act, which was passed on 26 March 2020 as emergency UK legislation, has enabled the government to make ‘educational closure directions’, whereby some of the legal duties that apply to local authorities have been temporarily suspended. According to Read More …
On the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath, here is a gallery of images as a reminder of the Declaration of Freedom in Education, signed by John Taylor Gatto during his visit to Scotland in September 2008. Calligraphy is by Read More …
Our advocacy colleague and vice-convener of Home Education Scotland, Mark Nixon, comments in today’s Courier on home education during anticipated school closures and lockdown, his key message being: replicating school at home is ill-advised. Coronavirus: ‘Let anxious kids play online Read More …
