Schools Out, For Ever By Dave Hill, Guardian. Published Saturday 14th April 2007
You don't have to be rich or a hippie to educate your children at home. Spurred on by fears over standards, more and more parents are abandoning the school system. Dave Hill meets a family of home educators. [Read more..]
HOME-SCHOOLING SOARS AS MORE PUPILS OPT OUT
By Richard Bramwell, The Sunday Sentinel (Staffordshire). Published Sunday 4th March 2007
More and more parents are teaching their children at home over worries about classroom bullies and the stress of exams.Latest figures show the number of youngsters being educated away from school in Staffordshire has risen by more than a third, while twice as many children are being taken out of lessons in Cheshire than three years ago.[Read more..]
Schools out! By Barbara Argument, Evening Gazette (Teeside). Published 27th February 2007
The number of children being taught at home has tripled since 1999 to 150,000. Parents’ top reasons for withdrawing their youngsters from school are poor discipline and the quality of state education. Chief Writer Barbara Argument talks to Teesside families who believe home is best when it comes to learning.[Read more..]
A happy, fulfilled life free of school" The Times. Published 24th February 2007
"We went into home education because official education had failed us; we are staying in home education because it’s absolutely great. Negatives have become positives. My older boy, Joseph, has been home-schooled for three years; he will be 13 in April" so writes the Times' Chief Sportswriter. [Read more..]
Home schooling numbers uncertain BBC News website. Published 23rd February 2007
An attempt to find out how many children in England are being educated at home suggests the number might range between 7,400 and 34,400. [Read more..]
Home schooling By Claire Price, BBC "Where I Live": Dorset - Features - Around Dorset. Published 26 January 2007
Why are over a hundred Bournemouth families teaching their children at home? BBC Dorset investigates the growing trend for home schooling among families here in the county - and discovers that they're hardly at home at all. [Read more..]
Sharp increase in home education BBC News, Scotland. Published 13 November 2006
The number of children withdrawn from school to be educated at home has increased by 39% in one year. [Read more..]
Yorks and Lincs: Home grown learning By Len Tingle, Political Editor, BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Published 14 September 2006
Most of Britain's children have been back at school for a good week or two. But for a growing number of parents and youngsters, the concept of school holidays has become meaningless. They are the families who have decided to by-pass the school system and educate their children at home.[Read more..]
Top GCSE grades for boy taught at home By S Donovan, The Portsmouth News. Published 05 September 2006
A BRAINY 14-year-old boy has fought back against the odds to get top grades despite not going to school. David Berrington scored an A in GCSE maths and a B in GCSE chemistry – two years earlier than most. [Read more..]
BBC debate on Home Education MP3 of a BBC debate on Home Education between Mike Fortune-Wood against a German Professor of comparative Education.
I Teach My Eight Kids At Home By Rosalind Sack, "First" Magazine, Issue 8. Published 5-11 July 2006
Most women breathe a sigh of relief when the children are packed off to school in the morning. But for mum of nine Margaret-Rose White, 35, her work is just beginning. [Read more..]
Too Cool for School By Caroline Scott, Sunday Times. Published 2nd July 2006
Across Britain, thousands of children are skipping the classroom altogether. They study whatever they like, they only take exams if they feel like it — and they have the full blessing of their parents and the law. When the school system fails, is home education the answer? [Read more..]
The kitchen classroom By Julie Akhurst, Junior Magazine. Published February 2006
Uneasy about your child's education? Unsure about the calibre of your child's teachers? As increasing numbers of parents become disillusioned with our education system, many are considering teaching their children at home [Read more..]
Lessons in my lounge! By Amy, 10, Isle of Wight - BBC Newsround Press Packer. Published Thursday January 05 2006
Most of you go to school but thousands of you don't - you're taught at home by your parents. Press Packer Amy gets taught at home and in her report she tells us what she enjoys about it. [Read more..]
London: Home Schooling By Tim Donovan, Political Editor BBC London. Published Friday, 9 December 2005
When it comes to educating children, do mums and dads know best? It is estimated that between 50,000 and 150,000 children are currently being taught at home. No official figures are kept, but the main support group for home education in the UK says its membership has grown by 25% in the last year.[Read more..]
Half Of Children Suffer Bullying Sky News. Published Monday November 21, 2005
Half of all children under the age of 11 have been bullied at school, a study has revealed. [Read more..]
Parents face school fines if children misbehave By Polly Curtis, Education Correspondent, Education Guardian. Published Monday November 21, 2005
Parents of violent or bullying children could be fined up to £1,000, the schools minister Jacqui Smith said today. [Read more..]
I do school work in my pyjamas! By Ceinwen, 12, Cornwall - BBC Newsround Press Packer. Published Monday October 03 2005
Ever wondered what it's like to not go to school and to be taught at home instead? Press Packer Ceinwen is home-schooled and in her report she describes her routine and what she likes about it best. [Read more..]
East, west, home's best By Karen Luckhurst, The Telegraph. Filed: 10 September 2005
"Her friends disapprove and predict dire consequences, but Karen Luckhurst is sure that school is no place for her child."[Read more..]
School bullies are forcing parents to teach at home By Sarah Cassidy, Education Correspondent, The Independent. Published: 09 August 2005
"Bullying is the main reason for parents removing their children from school and educating them at home, a survey shows. More than half of parents who teach their offspring at home do so because the children have been verbally or physically attacked by bullies or because they wished to avoid a school with a reputation for bullying." [Read more..]
A class of their own By Louise France, The Observer, Published: 17 April 2005
"It used to be seen as weird and a little cranky. But a growing number of ordinary parents are opting to teach their children at home. Louise France meets a generation of 'unschoolers', and reports on some of the important lessons mainstream education can learn from them ."[Read more..]
Growth market in home education By Mathew Charles , BBC Three News reporter. Published 18 March, 2005
"Education may be compulsory in the UK, but schooling is not and a growing number of parents are apparently turning their backs on the traditional system. Instead, they are taking their children out of the classroom to do the job themselves at home. "[Read more..]
