During the summer holiday, the Financial Times newspaper reported that the prime minister has asked the justice secretary, Michael Gove, to publish a consultation on replacing the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights. The journalists say that a new law will be introduced in May or June 2016. A consultation means that […]

The referendum in Scotland may be over, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg: it will have a huge impact on everyone in the UK, but we don’t know what that impact will be. How can we help our young people make sense of it all? Well, in England and Wales we have a […]

Citizenship teachers are in a unique position to be able to engage their pupils in conversation about the riots; developing pupils’ thinking around concepts such as personal responsibilities towards each other on the one hand and the government’s responsibilities towards its citizens on the other. Citizenship education encourages teachers to use current affairs in their […]

Writing on the Guardian’s MortarBoard Blog, Alicia Brown tells how her students at Villiers School in West London have been inspired to campaign for citizenship education. They even joined Democratic Life!

Citizens in a democratic society have a fundamental responsibility to engage in public life. Teachers and students have an obligation to promote equality, justice, respect for others and democratic participation. These ideals should be integral to cultures of educational institutions and embedded within and beyond the curriculum in schools. Education for democratic citizenship is a […]

Two days ago Alastair Campbell wrote that we need more politics teaching in schools. Here he explains why he thinks citizenship education is worth fighting for. The hints that the Government is thinking about removing citizenship from the curriculum are becoming a little louder. It would be yet another mistake by Michael Gove, at a […]

In this article written originally for Operation Black Vote, Conservative Councillor Imran Khan sets out his vision for multicultural Britain and argues the importance of citizenship education in shaping it. A great multicultural society should offer genuine democratic citizenship for all the communities residing in it, regardless of colour and religion. Democratic citizenship may be […]

Baccalaureate qualifications come in many forms. The International Baccalaureate (IB) combines academic subjects with creativity, action and service involving civic action/active citizenship, and a dissertation style essay. The European Baccalaureate, a different variation of the qualification, is used by European schools in England. Other versions are on offer through the awarding body AQA and the […]