Periplus Home Education

Dozens of headteachers and local education authorities officers have recently learned that Accipio Learning, an on-line learning provider to secondary schools and LEA's, has been placed into administration.

Periplus Home Education is mounting a radical bid to challenge education orthodoxy in the UK using the new government legislation allowing charities and other groups to set up “Free Schools”.

March 15, 2011 0 Entrepreneurship is very much in vogue today. Maligned by many and previously very much a minority activity, homeschooling has become increasingly mainstream. Is there any similarity in these groups?

March 1st saw the annual allocation of places for schools and once again as many as one third of Londoners and many others elsewhere in the country have not been able to gain a place at their preferred school.

The recent focus on the so called “English Baccalaureate” with its emphasis only on the subjects of Maths, English, Science, languages and Humanities has further sharpened concerns that there will be a much narrower curriculum diet on offer.

An Uncertain Future for State Education - Is Home Education The Answer? Periplus Home Education is a new company set up by two teachers who believe there is another way.