The Democratic Life campaign is building a strong support base all the time. It was great to have a passionate blog from a student at Swansea University fall into my inbox today heavily advocating the importance of citizenship education. Zahid Raja highlighted the impact of the subject and went on to dispel the many myths […]

Democratic Life are thrilled to have Oxfam join and support the campaign to champion citizenship education. They wrote to us to tell us why they feel citizenship education is so important: “According to Ipsos-MORI, over two thirds of pupils believe they can do something to help make the world a better place, and three-quarters believe […]

The UK National Commission for UNESCO has formally joined Democratic Life as a supporting organisation. Citizenship is a key vehicle in the delivery of study themes for the UNESCO Associated Schools network and in promoting the values of UNESCO such as human rights, peace, tolerance and sustainable development and cultural diversity. The provision of citizenship […]

The Five Nations Network has joined Democratic Life. The Five Nations Network is a unique forum that brings together teachers, educationalists, policy makers, NGOs and young people from England, Wales,  Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland every year for an annual conference to share practice in education for citizenship and values. In September 2009, the Five […]

David Blunkett MP has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling on the Government ‘to affirm its commitment to citizenship education as an entitlement for all students in English secondary schools.’ The EDM (no 1142) has been signed by MPs David Miliband, Pat Glass, Tom Blekinsop, Ian Mearns, and Caroline Lucas. We need more MPs […]

Following the launch of  “The Importance of Teaching” white paper in the House of Commons yesterday, the white paper was introduced to the  House of Lords by Lord Hill of Oareford, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools. Whilst there was no explicit mention of citizenship in the paper itself, Lord Beecham raised the issue in […]

Today the Department for Education has published ‘The Importance of Teaching’, the schools white paper outlining the Government’s plans for reforming England’s school system. White papers are issued by the government and lay out policy, or proposed action, on a topic of current concern, and can lead to public consultations or review processes. The White […]

Liverpool Mp Stephen Twigg made a short speech on citizenship education in an education debate on Wednesday 17th November. We’re really pleased that he has become such a vocal champion for citizenship and that he is so supportive of Democratic Life. In the debate he said; “My final point is about citizenship education. As a […]

Democratic Life has published a press release which calls on the Secretary of State for Education to pay heed to two new pieces of research that highlight the need for high quality citizenship education lessons in schools, taught by specialist teachers. The studies published today, both conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) […]