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British Veterans Made Some Dark Films to Protest the UK Army’s Recruitment of 16-Year-Olds
30/06/2015
Vice
An article on the context of the striking new short film from Veterans for Peace UK, Action Man: Battlefield Casualties , which presents a new range of war-traumatised action men.
Welsh Gov told to review the way British military recruits in Welsh schools
23/06/2015
The Welsh Government has been told to review of the way the British Armed Forces are allowed to recruit in Welsh schools.
The Daily Wales
War veterans call for rethink on recruitment of 16-year-olds
23/06/2015
The Guardian
Former professionals condemn recruitment of teenagers by ‘pushing the notion of a noble military career to children’.
Critical scrutiny of military ethos initiatives continues
10/06/2015
UCL
An example of how critical scrutiny of the Military Ethos in Schools programme is being sustained from people outside of ForcesWatch, comes from an Institute of Education conference in February 2015, where Victoria Basham, senior lecturer in Politics at Exeter University, gave a critical overview of the Department for Education's Military Ethos in Schools programme. Her talk was filmed, and can be viewed online here...
The Army offer ‘Soldiers to Schools’ as First World War Centenary ‘support’
10/06/2015
In addition to placing a soldier on each school coach visiting the First World War battlefields (as part of the government’s flagship Centenary initiative to have at least two students from every school in the country visit them), the Army have launched their own First World War teaching resources for schools, and are offering to send soldiers to schools to ‘support teaching activities’.
Army
MoD claims request for sensitive student data to aid Army recruitment an “error”
09/06/2015
'The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been blocked from obtaining highly sensitive personal data about school and college students, which had ostensibly been sought in order to help “target its messaging” around military careers...'
Schools Week ; The Daily Mail
Arms companies are making money by taking over UK schools
03/06/2015
Europe's largest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, has applied to sponsor the failing Furness Academy. The reason is profit.
Open Democracy
Quakers go to war over ‘bellicose’ school pack that promotes ‘pro-military values’
03/03/2015
The Government has been accused of helping indoctrinate children with pro-military values through a new schools pack aimed at promoting the armed forces.
The Independent
Government accused of military propaganda in the classroom
27/02/2015
The Government's material for schools about the armed forces has been criticised today by the human rights group ForcesWatch and Quakers in Britain.
ForcesWatch / Quakers in Britain press release
Veterans bring ‘military ethos’ to schools
27/01/2015
Growing number of organisations employ ex-servicemen and women to work in schools helping children develop ‘character’
The Guardian
