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Today, most of the nation is voting again. Every citizen over 18 gets the chance but relatively few will, they reckon.
The last weeks have seen more research figures relating to the drop in belief in politics. Yet the national challenges we currently face are huge – mostly emanating from the effects of a global downturn. [...]

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This weekend I joined 50 people from around the world for the Global Citizenship Forum.
It reminded me how different the term “Global Citizenship” can sound depending where in the world you come from: the UK, Palestine, Colombia, USA, Zimbabwe, Pakistan or any other country.
Some attending the event don’t even have citizen rights in their own [...]

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Tomorrow we launch the latest research into the impact of citizenship education. It looks at the understanding and behaviour of those who were the first to receive Citizenship from age 11. It was taken after they had been able to vote for the first time, at the General Election of 2010.
The launch will be in [...]

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As the Curriculum Review nears its conclusion teachers and schools across the nation are being prepared for a critical shift in the formula behind the national curriculum.
The context for the new orders couldn’t be much different from the prescriptive environment when the formula was last written. A Headteacher said to me a few weeks ago [...]

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Last night I spoke at the Bishopsgate Institute’s Influencing Young Minds debate, in which I argued that there is more going on in schools than just lessons. This is the transcript of that talk.
There’s a saying “When nation gets an itch, the school gets scratched…” In other words, we so often reach for education as the [...]

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