Children and young people today are growing up in a complicated world where technological, political, social and environmental change is affecting us all. Many young people are concerned about the future and find it difficult to navigate through the many forms of information they access. Some feel excluded and question whether our political system and […]

Young people concerned about subject status and the future of the A level in Citizenship Studies are leading the campaign for better citizenship education in schools. Kenny Imafidon is campaigning to persuade Department for Education Ministers that urgent action is needed to improve the quality of Citizenship and political education in schools. Despite a series of education […]

Democratic Life partner the Association for Citizenship Teaching has today published free sample teacher materials on the General Election 2015 from their forthcoming journal ‘Teaching Citizenship’. With parliament now in recess and the General Election just weeks away, many schools will be looking for practical teaching suggestions. Teaching Citizenship Issue 41 is full of ideas, […]

In parliament on Tuesday (17 March), ACT President the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP led an event to share the latest findings from a 12 year research study into the impact of Citizenship Education. The Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study (CELS) project began when David Blunkett was Secretary of State for Education and was intended to […]

One week in and we have just passed our initial target in our campaign to keep A level citizenship. At the time of writing, 503 people have signed our online petition asking exam board AQA not to ditch the only A level in citizenship studies. AQA’s decision to do so has serious implications for access to higher education, but the […]

Exam board AQA is the only awarding body to offer citizenship A level, but has now decided to drop it. We think this decision is absurd and baffling. We have written to Geoff Coombe, AQA’s Director of General Qualifications Development, to implore him to change his mind. We have also started a petition at change.org. The more supporters we […]

Last month, we asked for your help with the recent GCSE consultations. Your response was great. We were not happy with proposed changes to citizenship subject content and assessment, so we encouraged you to respond to two consultations: one on subject content (from the Department for Education), the other on assessment (from Ofqual, the exam regulator). To help you, we prepared example […]