GCSE exams and home schooling
Children who are educated at home are unfairly denied access to examinations, according to a report in today's Daily Telegraph.
This is not really a new story. Some home-schooled candidates have always found it time-consuming and awkward to locate suitable exam centres to take their exams for GCSE or A-level. ...
Read Full Article... | 18th December 2012
Welsh plans to register home learners
The Welsh government has today announced plans to require families in Wales to register home learners.
The home education community across the UK will be aware that there have been similar proposals, going back a number of years, but they have not (yet) come to anything, partly because of the ...
Read Full Article... | 04th September 2012
A level results day is here!
Firstly, good luck to all Oxford Home Schooling A level students.
Your results, that you have no doubt been anticipating with a mixture of excitement and trepidation, will finally be available to you today.
You will need to collect them from ...
Read Full Article... | 16th August 2012
I didn't get the GCSE results I wanted, where now?
Well it’s that time of the year again, the GCSE results are due very soon, my fingers are firmly crossed for all concerned, but what are the options for those school pupils who don’t get the results ...
Read Full Article... | 14th August 2012
Are IGCSEs tougher exams?
A report in the Sunday Times on 29 July was headlined 'State Schools ditch GCSE for tougher exam'. The exams in question were International GCSEs, or IGCSEs, as set by Edexcel and CIE. As the report indicated, IGCSEs are being adopted not just by private schools ...
Read Full Article... | 31st July 2012
Don’t Fear Shakespeare!
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Should children still be made to study the classics, or should the curriculum focus on modern, accessible English literature to engage our learners and encourage reading? By ...
Read Full Article... | 15th August 2012
Should home schooling be covered by the new special needs personal allowance?
When the government made its announcement last year that it was to carry out a major shake-up of the system responsible for educating children with special education needs, it was met with mixed reactions. Whilst some ...
Read Full Article... | 12th June 2012
Should Being the Victim of Bullying Be Counted as Having Special Needs?
A 2011 survey estimated that over 16,000 people aged 11-15 are either frequently absent from school, or are home educated because of bullying. The problem of bullying is still clearly a significant one, with many parents choosing to withdraw their children from the school system out of concerns for ...
Read Full Article... | 07th June 2012
Wider reading for A Level English Literature: 6: Culture, religion and science
In the last in our series of blogs on wider reading for A Level English Literature home study students, an Oxford Home Schooling tutor looks at the topics of science, religion and culture.
The exams are looming rather large on the horizon so now is the time to ...
Read Full Article... | 28th May 2012
So who can Study at Home?
My background is as a Further Education lecturer so I was used to having a wide cross-section of humanity in my classes but I had no idea when I began to teach English with Oxford Open Learning that my new tutor groups would be quite so diverse!