Funding

Centre for Personalised Education Trust (charity No: 1057442) has merged with "Education Now" and operates under the name "Personalised Education Now".

Research costs money. Can you help? Donations of every size count - whether it's a one off donation of £5 or £500 it will make a difference and we can also arrange for standing orders if you feel able to make a regular donation.

Donations can be sent to:

c/o Professor Roland Meighan, CPE Office, 113 Arundel Drive, Bramcote, Nottingham NG9 3FQ, Cheques made payable to: "CPE"

Standing Orders can be made payable to:

The centre for Personalised Education, Co-op Bank, Sort Code 08 92 99, Account Number: 70517811

we will soon be adding a gift aid form.

Thankyou for your support.

Mike F-W.

The Centre for Personalised Education Trust is appealing for funds to continue work on their research initiative.

The Centre for Personalised Education Trust is a charity with a role in offering support to home educators and groups working together outside mainstream educational institutions.

It is our belief that the best and most useful research is that which respects the home education community's own culture and independence. This is research that is by home educators and for home educators, not merely an academic exercise in statistics gathering.

This research focusses on the needs of home educators, their understandings of success, welfare, special educational needs and support structures. We will dispel the commonly held myths in the wider community replacing them with supportable accurate information.

By publishing the results on the website and in print we will improve understanding and widen support for home education in the UK. In the future we hope to develop further research into home education in Europe.

The feasibility study we conducted, which involved questionnaires and a research review, showed that most research already done into home education has concentrated on method of delivery, style of educational provision and outcomes. There have been few questions about how alternative provision impacts on conventional educational assumptions and about the role and range of individual and community resources accessed.

Home educators themselves particularly identified issues of support as requiring further work.

Other issues home educators raised included:

"Does society benefit from home education?"

"What are the main influences working for and against home education?"

"How do the perceptions of educational success which exist within the home education community differ from those of mainstream educational practice?"

"Who is education for?"

"What questions do home-educators face in relation to welfare issues and are these questions valid?"

Please support this important work.

Mike Fortune-Wood

Professor Roland Meighan