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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…
Military ethos – where’s the evidence?
Jon Boagey, operations director [at the National Youth Agency], asks why military ethos doesn’t seem to need evidence to get government funding.
Army launches ‘rebranding’ and recruitment campaigns
21/01/2015
The Army is launching a publicity campaign to keep its work in the public eye, following the end of combat operations in Afghanistan.
Minister: cut teenage pregnancies with army cadets
20/01/2015
Army cadet units could help cut the rate of teenage pregnancies, an education minister has said.
Lord Nash said teenage girls from single-parent families who had “never experienced the love of a man” could be deterred from forming “unsuitable relationships” if they enrolled in a cadet unit.
UK soldiers of 16 ‘too young’
12/01/2015
THE children’s commissioner for England has accused the armed forces of breaching the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by recruiting soldiers from the age of 16.
International Standards on Conscientious Objection to Military Service
06/01/2015
Published by the Quaker United Nations Office in November 2011, this booklet reflects recent changes in international law and practice that indicates that recognition of conscientious objection to military service as a human right is now stronger than ever.
More questions raised about the ‘Military Ethos in Schools’ programme
The Department for Education has committed a further £3.5m to fund organisations building ‘character’ among school students, and £1m for research to find the most effective ways that character can be taught in schools.
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