The infamous Conservative March 2016 budget was to capture ‘the next generations’ and control their cognitive map.
10 Scary Facts about School 1. Under proposed new assessment guidance for tests for 11 year olds, if your child scores 5 out of 6 for…
Renegade Inc. shares a canoe trip with Kim Vose, a guide and teacher in Maine, USA. He has a special talent inspiring the kids who are too ‘difficult’ for mainstream education.
The Ten-Step Parent Guide to Supporting You Child’s Learning in the Early Years.
It’s so easy to be educated but not really know anything. The system is set up for compliance so we do well in it by ‘doing what we’re told and doing it to the best of our abilities’.
For some people that’s their entire life - but some discover there is more to it than that and do something about it.
Private institutions who sell education as a commodity for profit are putting their interests above that of children. This corrosive shift is not what children, teachers or the world needs. Economist Prabhat Patnaik explains how real education is being deconstructed.
In this Meet the Renegades, Ross Ashcroft speaks to writer and educator Ian Gilbert. They discuss the faltering education system in developed nations and how it is affecting a generation of children.
In the first episode of our new podcast series Thinking Differently, Ross Ashcroft speaks to Oscar winning filmmaker, Lord David Puttnam.
In the first episode of our new podcast series Thinking Differently, Ross Ashcroft speaks to Oscar winning filmmaker and educator Lord David Puttnam.
Making a job, not taking a job means so much more than simply turning your back on employment and setting up on your own. It is more a way of life, a new distinctive multiple income stream lifestyle. It requires a new way of thinking, and not relying on big business or government to put our best interests first.
Roman Krznaric, author of ‘Empathy: Why it matters and how to get it”, talks to us about empathy in the age of self interest.
The chances of reducing the number of lives ruined by war and other forms of social violence depend on our ability to identify the root…
Steve Keen Interview - Part 5: The UK’s business like approach to education leaves very little room for innovation. How do we shift the focus from…
Recently we were told about a secret project. A group of wealthy benefactors decided that the modern targets based education wasn’t for them or their…
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Matthew Watson is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University.
Four Horsemen
Poverty is blighting the lives of millions of people, and the environmental crisis is already making things worse. As with poverty, our failure to tackle…
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The revolution of alternative education is here. The question is, do we want to own more stuff… or own ourselves?
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.
Chris Hedges
So, what should economics be about? Well, that depends on your values and world view. If you believe that everyone should have an equal chance…
Education Seen in a longer timeframe, education is best imparted from kindergarten and up. In this regard it can be said that true education is…
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Barrister and School Principal Ian Mason addressed the UN: One World One Wealth - Economics, Justice and the Rights of Nature. We ask him how…