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Minutes from the June 2021 Cambs Exams Virtual Meet Up

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • June 17, 2021June 17, 2021
  • Careers, KS4/GCSE, News & Articles

Through a virtual meet up, Cambridgeshire home educators were able to pool their exams knowledge and experience to be able to share this with other home educators that are new to or flirting with the world of exams. These are the minutes from that meeting complete with relevant links.

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From HE to Sixth Form

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • March 28, 2021March 28, 2021
  • Home Ed Voices, News & Articles

School never interested me, but I was unbelievably excited to go to sixth form. I’d been looking forward to it pretty much since I began my GCSEs, when I was 13. Though I loved HE, and had an incredible overall experience, I craved the independence and opportunity to make new […]

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Home Educators Need Fair Grading Too

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • March 24, 2021March 24, 2021
  • KS4/GCSE, News & Articles

Confused as to why home educators can’t just be graded ‘like everybody else’? This open letter addressed to Baroness Berridge spells out the problems for home educators who are trying to get graded this summer, following the cancellation of exams. 

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HomeEduphobia

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • January 1, 2021January 1, 2021
  • News & Articles

Where there is ignorance, prejudice and discrimination tend not to be too far behind.  Despite COVID introducing the concept of ‘home schooling’ to the UK, ‘home education’ remains a mystery to most, leaving myths to be confused with facts, and out-dated, deep-seated prejudices room to find new life.

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Testing Times

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • November 8, 2020November 8, 2020
  • KS4/GCSE, News & Articles

When new parents ask about HE and exams, they think the worst part is getting started on the GCSE ladder, little do they know that, for so many of us, it is the getting your child to the exam centre that leaves you with sleepless nights and cold sweats.

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COVID-19: Home Educating Group Guidelines

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • October 6, 2020June 17, 2021
  • News & Articles

Since schools have started back, we have been wanting to get back to HEing too, but like most people, I was getting very confused as to what we could or could not do in terms of meeting up with other people, so I decided to investigate. 

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We Need To Talk About Gavin

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • August 26, 2020January 1, 2021
  • News & Articles

20,000 students still having no grade at all after this summer’s cancelled exams. Many of whom are home educated. A case of ministerial incompetence or deliberate neglect of a minority group? Either way, we need to talk about Gavin.

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What’s the Point?

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • July 27, 2020July 27, 2020
  • News & Articles

Many home educators give up careers, two incomes and any number of other things in order to educate their children themselves, but what’s it all for? What is the purpose of education?

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The COVID Home Education Gap

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • June 21, 2020July 27, 2020
  • News & Articles

The education gap doesn’t just stop at the school gates. Home educators are feeling the impact of inequality too.

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We’re All Homeschoolers Now: How lockdown Has Affected HE Learning

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • May 31, 2020May 31, 2020
  • News & Articles

It has been a question many have been asking, ‘how has the parenting world taken to homeschooling?’, but no one seems to be asking, ‘how have home educators taken to lockdown learning?’

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