by Adam Morton / The Age
© The Age. Reproduced by Permission.
March 8, 2006
It figures: after completing year 12 subjects at 10, mathematician Yao-ban Chan has now become Melbourne University’s youngest-ever PhD graduate.
WHEN he was 10, while his peers swung from monkey bars and charged around with rugby balls, Yao-ban Chan sat year 12 exams in [...]
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Leunig on ‘Enough Rope’
Celebrated cartoonist and journalist, Michael Leunig, was interviewed on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope and talked about home educating his children.
The transcript is available here http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1632918.htm . The topic of home education comes up about halfway through the transcript.
A Class of Their Own
By Marilyn Rodrigues
This article appeared in Melbourne’s Child, April 06
© Marilyn Rodrigues, reproduced by permission
Ten-year-old Heather Johnston and her six-year-old sister, Emily, do similar things to other girls their age. They participate in Girl Guides, have swimming lessons at the local pool and play sport with their friends. Emily is learning to read and write [...]
Stateline
In March 2006, home education was in the news in relation to the new Education and Training Reform Act before Parliament. Stateline looked at the issue on 24th March. The transcript is available here:
http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/vic/content/2006/s1600305.htm
Home schooling Defended
By James Silver
The State Government wants to impose tough new measures to control the home education system, a support group says.
Bendigo mother, Susan Wight, who is part of the Home Education Network, has slammed the government’s handling of a draft reform bill that calls for the creation of an authority that would regulate home schooling [...]
Strap to be banned in Victorian Schools
The Age looked at the proposed new Education and Training Act on September 16 2005.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/strap-to-be-banned-in-all-victorian-schools/2005/09/15/1126750078252.html
For the record HEN is not opposed to banning the strap but were objecting to home education regulation.
Children educated at home don’t learn like they do in school
Ockham’s Razor Transcript, Sunday, 24th November, 1996
Robyn Williams: Bertrand Russell never went to school; it didn’t appear to do him much harm either, as he still got to Trinity College Cambridge, revolutionised 20th century mathematics, won the Nobel Prize for Literature and did quite a bit for philosophy and politics as well.
Avoiding school was commonplace for the British aristocracy. But does it have a place in today’s education? Alan Thomas has done a study on this question. He’s Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Northern Territory in Darwin and his results are quite surprising. …
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