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Scottish Home Education Forum Survey (February 2018) Reasons for school-age children being in home education Survey results [download] Introduction There are no reliable statistics on the number of school-age children who are in home education in Scotland, since Read More …
Professor John Raven’s latest paper outlines his observations derived from 60 years in educational research. Gap? What Gap? [See also ‘Nuggets’ extracted from the article] Abstract In this paper I show that the main problems faced by the educational system Read More …
This presentation, by psychologist Dr Paula Rothermel, reports on the comparative performance of reception-aged, school- and home educated children in the UK on PIPS baseline assessments. Paula assessed home educated children aged between four and five years, from diverse socio-economic Read More …
We remain deeply concerned by reports of harassment, bullying and ultra vires activities on the part of the new ‘SHANARRI Stasi’, which has been unleashed on the unsuspecting families of Scotland as a result of the Children and Young People Act. Read More …
The NSPCC report on home education is out (original link now dead, see below) Usual warnings about being in a safe place before reading it. The only good bit is: Home-educating parents or carers are not more likely than others to Read More …
