Monthly Archives: May 2015

a place to sit exams in November

At Faregos exam centre in Hampshire – run by home educators for home educators – you can sit CIE exams + GCSE maths in November. These are the only exams which centres can offer for November; the old ‘November retake’ sitting is no longer possible. Continue reading

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Chatham House and the Stafford meeting

Now that the official notes from the Stafford AEHEP meeting last month are supplemented by Tricia Farey’s notes and EO’s notes, the drawbacks – or advantages depending on your perspective – of the Chatham House Rule are becoming apparent, particularly when the meeting involves only a small number of people and their identities have become public knowledge. Continue reading

pros and cons of ways to write up a meeting

I keep being asked about different ways a meeting might be written up – prompted by the national body for local authority home education professionals [AEHEP] meeting with ‘EHE support groups’ in Stafford last month.

I thought I’d set out the pros and cons of the main options here as I see it. Continue reading