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Serious stuff happens here in the world of citizenship education. That’s why students at our climate change residential weekend have made these videos: because climate change is a serious business.
They were asked to save the world in one minute, on camera. This is what happened.

Young people at the residential last weekend

Students from Royal Alexander and [...]

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We launched the Youth Budget at the Treasury a couple of weeks ago. Then last week Chancellor George Osborne announced his own. How do they compare?
The majority of the 1,100 Youth Budget participants were more severe than the government, and they would have produced a lower deficit.
Tax and spend

Youth Budget responses to reducing corporation tax

Issue
Same
Less
More

Tax
39
377
759

Spend
32
811
332

Deficit
26
890
259

Remove [...]

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The final of this year’s Bar National Mock Trial Competition is at the Old Bailey today. We will be reporting live where we can.
Bar National Mock Trial Competition final 2012

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Youth Budget 2012 gives young people the chance to tell UK politicians how to run the economy.
The Youth Budget report is being launched at the Treasury on Wednesday 14 March. Some of the contributors will be there to quiz a panel of experts including James Morris MP, Secretary of Youth Affairs and Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director [...]

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The UK government plans to reduce the importance of citizenship education in schools. On Tuesday I asked former Education Secretary David Blunkett about his concerns for a demoted citizenship curriculum.
What follows is a full transcript of the interview, accompanied by videos of each question.
Removing the national standards for teaching citizenship
Ten years ago - as Education [...]

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