Our mission is to connect families whose children are educated outside school, encourage the pooling of resources, experience and expertise, nurture home-edupreneurship and facilitate preferential trading between members to benefit the home education community and economy.
Whether you are a parent just thinking about educating without schooling, a new or established home educator, a professional who comes into contact with home-based educators, or even if you are just curious about home education and how it works, we hope you will find our site of interest.
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An opinion piece by a head teacher, which was recently published in the ‘What keeps me awake at night’ column of the TES magazine, evidently drew a strong reaction from readers. So much so, the editor has made a plea for ‘other teachers and professionals’ to share their views and experiences, in confidence, for a feature article he is writing on the ‘sensitive’ subject of parents exercising their legal right to remove their children from school.
EBHE (Edinburgh and Beyond Home Education) are excited to announce that Sandra Dodd, a popular prolific and high profile unschooler from New Mexico, will be giving two public talks in central Edinburgh on Saturday the 21st of May.
Did they really think we wouldn’t notice? Despite attempts to conceal their actions from home educators, the coalition government has seen fit to regurgitate recommendations made by the discredited Graham Badman in relation to pupil registration regulations and attendance codes in England.
Home education can seem a daunting prospect when all you have ever known is schooling, so we hope some personal accounts of educating children outside the school system might help soothe the inevitable newbie nerves!
Read about Karen's experience of home educating a child with special needs.
Ronnie shares aspects of his family's first 18 months of home education.
Many home educators and home educated young people are already in business or thinking of working for themselves. As naturally resourceful and determined individuals who are never inclined to give up easily, they are ideally suited to the world of business.
Read about home-edupreneur Pauline's experience of Mixing enterprise and education
Read about Ali's home ed biz background in Home education: a springboard to enterprise
Visit our media forum to read the latest news on home-based education and business or to post a journalist’s request.
If you have a professional interest in home-based education, why not join our dedicated professionals’ forum and meet our team of experienced home educators?
Home educators are hardened campaigners!
Petition No10 to scrap the Badman Report
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A selection of articles which we hope will be of interest to home educators.
Bullying, or why we home educate
