Tag: Learning Communities

Oct 09
Free 3-Day Challenge Event: For pioneers starting or running their own schools and learning communities

Exciting news! We have organised an empowering event with some incredible speakers, to celebrate one year of running our membership for start-up schools and learning communities. Are you thinking of setting up your own school or learning community? Or do you know someone who is? Or perhaps you’ve been running for a while and would like to connect with […]

Oct 07
URGENT: Part-time Learning Communities Impact Survey

Do you work at, or does your child attend a part-time learning community? If so, please could you spare a few minutes to complete our survey? The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill was announced in December 2024 and has direct implications for part-time education provisions in England and Wales. This Bill is progressing through parliament quickly right […]

Jan 07
Happy New Year!

Wishing you the best for a happy 2023. May this new year bring much inspiration to us all for reimagining education. 2022 was an exciting year for Progressive Education founder, Jo Symes. She was lucky enough to be accepted onto the School for Social Entrepreneurs start-up programme. This year-long training and mentor programme gave her […]

Oct 03
Is Self Directed Education Uneconomic? By Dr Ian Cunningham

Large scale education The main defence of traditional large-scale schooling is that it is necessary to bring together large groups of young people in these settings so that they can be effectively prepared for their future roles in society. The inconvenient evidence is that all the research on adults as to what makes them effective […]