PRESS RELEASE IN RESPONSE DfE/Ofqual Consultation (GCSE, AS, A level summer 2021 ) Following the conclusion of the DfE/Ofqual consultation on how GCSE, AS, and A level grades should be awarded in summer 2021, Education Otherwise note the following key highlights: 1. There will be no national external examinations in the summer of 2021. […]
A small group of courageous home educating parents is challenging the might of Portsmouth City Council (PCC) in the High Court. The group’s complaints about the way that the Council treats them, were dismissed out of hand by officials, who seemed to believe that they were above the law. The judicial review challenges both PCC’s […]
UPDATE: PHEG has reached its target of £30,000 in less than three days. From their fundraising page– “We hit £30,000! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated, shared, and written us lovely messages of support. We’re incredibly grateful and awed by the power of our community rallying for justice. Since judicial […]
The Home Education group PHEG is once again crowdfunding for their judicial review process. Education Otherwise stands firm in their support and ask you all to please give them the support they need. This case is of great significance to all home educators, not just in Portsmouth. What is tolerated from one local authority […]
19th February 2021, we have received notification that Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) Exams 2021 (May/June Series) have been cancelled in the UK. CAIE have said: “For schools in the United Kingdom, this means that exams for Cambridge IGCSE, O Level, and International AS & A Level will no longer take place. We will say […]
Portsmouth City Council has been sent a letter before action, in accordance with Pre Action Protocol for a judicial review. Portsmouth Home Education Group raised the funds necessary to seek guidance from a well-respected barrister through crowdfunding on chuffed.org in less than 24 hours. The advice given means they are proceeding to the next […]
Great news for those wishing to sit IGCSE’s this summer. UPDATE: IGCSEs will go ahead this summer. Pearson provisional timetable here. Cambridge International provisional timetable here. We will continue to seek more options with decision makers. As one of our resource providers reminds us: ‘24 hours is a long time in politics’ and […]
Recently, a wave of misinformation has flooded the media, and sadly, the halls of power. The LGA has released a report claiming up to 1.1 million children are ‘not in formal education’, implying that there were 1.1 million home educated children. Further, the Chair of the Commons Select Committee on education, Mr. Robert Halfon, made […]
Education Otherwise is proud to stand by others, so that the many voices of home education can be heard. This open letter is written in direct response to the shocking Radio 4’s Today programme interview on Monday 16th November 2020 in respect of the consultation on home education. The clear bias exhibited by […]
Education Otherwise is the home education charity in the UK and counts amongst its trustees researchers in the field. As a charity, we received the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme interview with extreme distaste, as a result of the deeply prejudicial nature of comments made by Robert Halfon MP, chair of the education select committee […]