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- What is Home Education?
- Why Home Educate?
- Groups, meetings, activities in your area
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Home Education related news
- Introduction to Home Ed Wiki? - For information on how to use and modify this site - please get involved!
News
Most recent 10 news articles on Home Education.
- Go to http://www.ft.com/ and search for 'A Class Apart' - Excellent article on Home Ed.
- From the Japan Times:
- Home-schooling is on the rise - http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fs20080520a4.html
- UK Home-schoolers come to Tokyo for boot camp - http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fs20080520a3.html
- Testing in Schools is damaging children:
- The Independent, Parents using schools to dump children, say headteachers - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/parents-using-schools-to-dump-children-say-headteachers-821123.html
- BBC News, Dads 'don't read bedtime stories' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7340720.stm
- Guardian Education, Pioneer co-op among 115 new trust schools - http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2272140,00.html
- The Guardian, State schools shunned for home education - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/08/schools.education
- Telegraph Newspaper, The idle parent: the less school, the better - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2008/03/15/faidleparent.xml
- Channel 4 News, UK home-school cases soar - http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/education/uk+homeschool+cases+soar/847157
- Guardian Newspaper, State schools shunned for home education - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/08/schools.education
- More News...
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it Legal?
In many places yes. But you may want to consult Legal Issues in the UK or find out about Home Education around the World.
Other Questions
- Socialisation, How to do Exams, Popularity of HE, Do I need Qualifications for HE?
- Philosophy and Curriculum
Local Information
If there is no information about your area, then please add it. If your county has a blue link then someone has already started. Do you agree with what they say? Have you anything you can add? If your county has a red link then no one has yet written anything. Please click on it to add whatever text you can. Adding text will automatically create the page for your county.
- UK National Groups - or information for individual counties; Avon, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Borders, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Carmarthenshire, Central, Ceredigion, Cheshire, Cleveland, Clwyd, Cornwall, County Antrim, County Armagh, County Down, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry, County Tyrone, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Dumfries and Galloway, Durham, Dyfed, East Sussex, Essex, Fife, Gloucestershire, Grampian, Greater Manchester, Gwent, Gwynedd County, Hampshire, , Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Highlands and Islands, Humberside, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Lothian, Merseyside, Mid Glamorgan, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Powys, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, South Glamorgan, South Yorkshire,Staffordshire, Strathclyde, Suffolk, Surrey, Tayside, Tyne and Wear, Warwickshire, West Glamorgan, West Midlands, West Sussex, West Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire,
- Other Countries...
Resources
- Educational Resources
- Book Reviews
- Then Uk yahoo group provide a huge list of resources both educational and helping you to find local groups. Visit the website and click on resources: http://www.thenuk.com/
Background Information on Home Education
- There has been some Research into Home Education in the UK, and rather more in the USA.
- The History of Home Education.
- Home Education around the World
