Hansard Society are holding a forum to discuss what contribution should under-18s be making to politics?
Speakers at this event will include Jo Swinson MP, Emily Benn PPC and a member of the UK Youth Parliament. There will also be the opportunity for an open discussion with the audience.
The event is to be held, Wednesday 10 [...]
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So what's a Baraza?
May 12
Now, I like to think I’m fairly well informed when it comes to pupil voice, but as part of my current project I came across something I’d never heard of before: a Baraza. Any ideas what it is? Well, unless you speak Swahili, it’s unlikely. This concept has come over to us from Kenya, via [...]
This guy contacted us about training last week, and I though his role was really interesting, so I asked him to write a blog post for us. Here it is.
Vicky
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Stepping back four years ago at Hirst High School Technology College, it would certainly seem like a different school. With a planned student strike against the [...]
Over the last couple of weeks whilst searching the internet for news on school councils I have noticed a number of stories celebrating the positive praise school councils are receiving through their inspection reports. I have picked out a few examples to share with you.
Shilbottle First School celebrated receiving Ofsted’s outstanding rating for the third [...]
I was reading through Gordon Brown’s big speech on education yesterday: http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19209 (I was a little surprised at the lack of full stops, but that’s not the main point of this post) I really liked the main thrust of his argument: that we get out of recession by making education better and fairer rather than [...]
I’ve just got back from the launch of the English Secondary Students’ Association’s (ESSA) new project, ‘Manifesto for Change’. It’s a campaign in the form of a competition. The idea is to collect together the thoughts and views of young people aged 11-19 and form these into Manifesto for Education. ESSA are asking people to [...]
