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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’.
A former cadet’s experience of the Combined Cadet Forces
09/06/2015
Looking back on being part of a school-based cadet unit, the author reflects that, despite the fun and experience to be gained, the benefits could be achieved with non-military activities which would not present a dangerous and risk-laden career as an enjoyable and exciting activity or expose young people to an environment where bullying and hazing are normalised.
Why recent developments in character education indicate there’s no need for a military ethos
The Department for Education has given out its £3.5 million ‘Character Awards’ and its £3.5 million Character Education grants, both championed by Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan, to 27 schools and youth organisations in England, and 14 youth projects, respectively. Despite the DfE’s heralding of ‘military ethos‘ as an excellent means of developing character, none of those awarded mention military-style activities in their descriptions (see here and here).
‘Targeted messaging’ in schools about armed forces careers not for the ‘well-being’ of students
05/06/2015
Schools Week are today reporting that the Ministry of Defence requested access to the National Pupil Database. The request was for the most sensitive pupil data. The request was refused by the Department for Education. The evidence is in that the armed forces already visit schools for recruitment purposes so we ask why, if 'targeted messaging' in schools about armed forces careers is not for the 'well-being' of students, are they allowed to visit schools with their recruitment agenda at all?
‘Targeted messaging’ in schools about armed forces careers not for the ‘well-being’ of students
Schools Week today report that the Ministry of Defence requested access to the National Pupil Database. The request was for the most sensitive pupil data and was refused by the Department for Education. There is substantial evidence that the armed forces already engage with schools for recruitment purposes so we ask why, if ‘targeted messaging’ in schools about armed forces careers is not for the ‘well-being’ of students, are they allowed to visit schools – and run military activities such as cadets in them – at all?
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.
The recruitment agenda behind the UK armed forces’ ‘engagement’ with students in schools and colleges
31/05/2015
This briefing is a compilation of evidence that contradicts the MoD and armed forces’ claims that they don’t recruit in schools and that ‘engaging’ with students does not have a recruitment purpose.
Celebrate or commemorate? The Department for Education and VE Day
07/05/2015
The DfE’s recent communication to schools about the 70th anniversary of VE Day on 8 May suggests that schools ‘will want to celebrate and commemorate’ the event. This is the third set of learning materials promoted by the DfE within the past year around military issues. Do ‘celebrations’ around remembrance events inevitably drown out the more cautious messages about the price of victory?
Questions for general election candidates about the military and young people
22/04/2015
Here we provide two sample questions that you can ask candidates as well as key points and further sources of information. You can find your candidates contact details using https://yournextmp.com/. Let us know if you get any responses!
UK’s compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights
27/03/2015
In advance of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s consideration of how the UK complies with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (during autumn 2015), the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a short report outlining areas of concern. The report states:
Again, we hope that our successor committee will have an opportunity to scrutinise the issue of children serving in the armed forces in the light of the UN Committee’s concluding ovservations which will be delivered in 2016.
A critical response to ‘The British Armed Forces: Learning Resource 2014’
27/02/2015
The report is published in conjunction with the video The British Armed Forces: Propaganda in the classroom? produced by Quaker Peace & Social Witness.
This report explains why the British Armed Forces Learning Resource (published in September 2014 by the Prime Minister’s Office) is a poor quality educational resource, and exposes the resource as a politically-driven attempt to promote recruitment into the armed forces and “military values” in schools.
The British Armed Forces: Propaganda in the classroom?
Produced by Quaker Peace & Social Witness.
To accompany the ForcesWatch report A critical response to ‘The British Armed Forces: Learning Resource 2014’
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’
Cardiff event on ‘Red Hand Day’ 2015: ‘Ban schoolyard recruitment’
26/01/2015
On Red Hand Day (the annual international day of campaigning against the use of child soldiers), 12 February, 2015, a well-attended event at Cardiff’s Temple of Peace called for an end to military presence and influence in schools and colleges in Wales. Featuring speakers from ForcesWatch and Fellowship of Reconciliation Wales, the event explored the nature of armed forces visits to schools and colleges in Wales, as well as the military’s ‘engagement’ with young people in Wales more broadly…
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