military in schools/colleges
Robot dogs in UK schools: good dog or bad dog?
Investigate why robot dogs are visiting schools across the UK with the STEM Detective! This year's BAE Systems STEM Education Roadshow is running school workshops about artificial intelligence with a robot dog named Lexi. But, while pupils get to make music videos with Lexi, robot dogs have other functions on the battlefield.
Do we want militarised schools? Cadet forces, ‘independent’ evaluations and defence agendas in education
With the government's pledge to create more cadet units in schools we look at the politics of cadet force expansion, the research that has supported it, and what is wrong with militarising education.
Teach Peace Secondary
2024
The Peace Education Network'sTeach Peace Secondary offers over 50 cross-curricular lessons from a range of organisations including Pax Christi, Amnesty International, Values Based Education, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Facing History & Ourselves, Corrymeela, and War Child. Lessons are freely available via TES.com and include:
- Amnesty International: How does the arms trade work?
- Scientists for Global Responsibility: A beginner's guide to nuclear weapons
- Pax Christi: Military spending – does it make us more secure?
- Conflict Resolution in Sheffield Schools Training (CRESST): Curious about conflict
Warrior Nation: International anti-militarism – Demilitarising Education
8 Feb 2024, SEASON 5 EPISODE 1
Responding to military engagement in schools
2022
This booklet produced by Quakers in Britain in 2022 asks how can schools meet their responsibility for the best interests of children and young people when engaging with the armed forces and weapons industry? It provides information, resources and ideas for countering military influence in schools.
Armed Forces Day 2023: militarism comes to Cornwall
This year the national Armed Forces Day event is being held in Falmouth, Cornwall. Many other events are being held around the country. We outline our concerns, including how the event is marketed, its promotion to young people and schools, and the inclusion of recruitment activities that allow young children to handle weapons.
Pioneering a dystopian future
Many of the world's largest arms companies are involved in providing education and careers activities for young visitors at the UK's largest airshows. The same companies that are supplying weapons and military jets to Saudi Arabia for their war in Yemen.
Recruitment of children to the military in Welsh schools
April 2021
A new report by Cymdeithas y Cymod, ForcesWatch and the Peace Pledge Union examines the issue of military recruitment in schools in Wales – an issue steeped in controversy and on which the Welsh government made a series of commitments in a report published in June 2015, following a public petition submitted in 2012. Since then, little tangible progress has been made against those commitments, yet military recruitment visits to Welsh schools have continued undiminished.
Boris Johnson’s government and the military: a look ahead at 2020
Data on military visits and activities in schools
2019
The latest information available and some quick guidance on using this data.