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GCSE consultations: thank you for your help!

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...

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Pupils lack human rights understanding as a third of teachers feel...

A poll commissioned by Amnesty International and teachers’ magazine TES has found that one in three teachers (32.9 per cent) does not feel equipped to teach human rights. Nearly half (47.4 per cent)...

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Help David Blunkett and higher education professionals save the citizenship A...

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...

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500 A level campaign supporters – and counting!

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...

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Citizenship Education works! Confirmed by 12 year research study

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...

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General Election 2015 – FREE teaching materials from ACT

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’....

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A level Citizenship Studies must not be allowed to disappear

The A level results published yesterday (13 August 2015) show numbers of students achieving the A level in Citizenship have held up well, yet the qualification is being allowed to disappear after 2018....

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A new British Bill of Rights: young people should have a say

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...

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Young people lead the campaign for better citizenship education

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...

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National Action Plan – Citizenship for All launched

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...

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