Home-schooling helps us resist indoctrination

Jan 19, 2025 by

by David Frost, Telegraph: It is also the last refuge from failing state schools for those parents unable to afford private education. Britain likes to think of itself as a supremely pragmatic country. We close our ears to abstract...

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What problem is the Education Secretary trying to solve?

Jan 18, 2025 by

by Katharine Birbalsingh, Spectator: An open letter to Bridget Phillipson. Dear Education Secretary, I am worried your time in office will destroy the huge gains made over the last decade and a half in helping disadvantaged children...

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No to Woke changes to the national curriculum

Jan 10, 2025 by

from Voice for Justice UK: Petition: On 29 th December 2024, it was reported in The Telegraph that Labour plans a major shake-up of the national curriculum. 1 Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson apparently wants to make education ‘more...

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Christian group criticises government proposals targeting home-schooling parents

Jan 8, 2025 by

from Christian Today: The Christian Institute has hit out at “intrusive and burdensome” proposals to force parents who educate their children at home to report their involvement in extracurricular activities including Sunday...

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How Labour is seizing more control over our children

Jan 8, 2025 by

by Kathy Gyngell, TCW: NEVER underestimate Labour and their determination to wrest any final vestige of authority and concomitant responsibility from parents and endow it on the oh-so-caring state. Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing...

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Why aren’t kids reading anymore? Maybe because teachers treat them like children

Jan 8, 2025 by

By Steven Tucker, Mercator. Mercator recently ran a piece, “101 Books Millennials Must Read Before They Die”. No chance of that happening according to a new report from the UK’s National Literacy Trust showing that, of 76,000 British...

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