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Homeschooling in the UK increases 40% over three years ...

Homeschooling in the UK increases 40% over three years

By Mariam Issimdar BBC News

26 April 2018

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Media captionOliver Wood, 15, is one of thousands of children being taught outside of a school

The number of children being homeschooled has risen by about 40% over three years, the...

Home school parents angry over plans to monitor their ...

Others prefer the flexibility of home schooling.

Joanne Courtney from Moira also educates her three children at home.

"It's working extremely well, the children are very interested in learning things and we try not to hamper them. We don't push them too much towards formal education, we follow what they are interested in all the time," she said.

Some studies have shown that, while children who...

BBC - Travel - Would you teach your kids on the road?

In the growing movement of worldschooling, parents don't believe you have to postpone your travel goals until the kids are grown up.

By Dave Seminara

8 November 2016

For travellers accustomed to picking up at the drop of a hat and jetting off to Rio or Riyadh without a care in the world, becoming a parent can be a culture shock. So long to travelling light. Goodbye bargain off-peak airfares;...

Home education: Court rules against German Christian ...

Home education is banned in Germany but the Wunderlich family, from Darmstadt, who are Christian, wished to educate their children in this way.

Their four children were taken into care for three weeks in 2013 .

Afterwards the parents took their case to the ECHR in Strasbourg,

They claimed their right to respect for private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights had been breached.

But the court has now ruled that taking the children into care was justified.

The ECHR said officials in...

Special needs pupils 'spend years out of school' - BBC News

Julie becomes tearful when she starts talking about her autistic son's struggle to stay in school. "He has been taught that he's not worth anything," she says.

Sam, 14 - who loves animals and rebuilding computers - was temporarily excluded from secondary school in December 2015.

Julie expected her son would be back in a matter of days. But he didn't go back to school for almost two and a half...

Where can UK students study for free? - BBC News

The Scottish government meets the cost of Scottish students and EU law makes clear students from EU countries cannot be offered a worse deal than home ones.

The Scottish government has pledged that whatever happens, EU students who enrol up to 2019 will continue to benefit from free tuition fees.

UK students can study for free in 11 countries

Currently, any British student can study at a...

Plans for 1,500 Bristol homes at old airport site rejected ...

Plans to build 1,500 homes on the site of a former airport have been rejected.

The development on Hengrove Park in south Bristol would have been the city's largest development in decades.

The proposal was recommended for approval but councillors turned it down at a meeting on Wednesday saying it would be too car dependent and offer too few community facilities.

Bristol City Council said it was disappointed with the decision and was considering its next steps.

Hengrove Park was the city's main airport between the 1930s and 1950s but the 49 hectare (121 acre) site has since become a...

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