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Teach Peace pack
27/05/2014
Teach Peace, a new resource from the Peace Education Network, is a set of eight assemblies, follow-up activities, resources, prayers and reflections on peace for primary schools.
From the UN peace day, 21 September, to the International Day for Children as Victims of War, 4 June, the school year is ?lled with opportunities to use the assemblies and activities in Teach Peace. This resource will help to ensure peace is a key theme in our children’s education and help you to celebrate peace and the peacemakers in your school.
The entire resource is free to download below. Hard copies of Teach Peace are available from the Peace Education Network for £5. Also available in Welsh.
Questioning military academies and free schools
20/05/2014
This article explains what we mean by ‘military academies’ and ‘military free schools’, and explores the concerns that they raise: the lack of evidence that they will raise attainment; that they can employ unqualified teachers; their limited accountability to the local community; the fact that they can set their own curriculum. Crucially, there are various agendas behind military academies and free schools, including providing employment for the growing number of veterans, and encouraging pupils to join the armed forces after they leave school. There is also unease about what military-style discipline would look like in a school environment.
Drone Wars: Pilots reveal debilitating stress beyond virtual battlefield
13/05/2014
“To extinguish a person’s life is a very personal thing. While physically we don’t experience the five senses when we engage a target — unlike [how] an infantryman might — in my experience, the emotional impact on the operator is equal.”
Arms and the Woman: Militarizing Gender Wars
09/05/2014
You know the British Army is experiencing a crisis in recruitment when they start to make noises about ending the ban on women in combat roles.
Take arms firms out of the Big Bang Fair
28/03/2014
Letter signed by over 100, including ForcesWatch
Defence Committee report challenges the MoD (again) to produce a ‘robust and thorough’ review of under 18 recruitment
06/03/2014
The Defence Select Committee have today released their report of inquiry into the MoD’s Future Army 2020 plan. Amid the concerns about the strategy of increasing the proportion of reservists in relation to regular forces, the report calls on the MoD “to respond in detail to the argument that the Army could phase out the recruitment of minors without detriment to the Army 2020 plans”. Read our submission to the inquiry here.
Disaster militarism
05/03/2014
The country’s military institutions must not be seen as deserving of special consideration. Once the ethos of public service has been smashed and discredited by neoliberal restructuring, the danger is that it will take more than an army to bring it back. By Vron Ware.
Gove’s Troops To Teachers ‘A Costly Flop’
04/03/2014
Michael Gove’s scheme to train ex-squaddies as teachers was labelled an “expensive flop” yesterday after it was revealed the Tory Education Secretary mustered just 132 recruits.
ForcesWatch submission to Defence Select Committee inquiry on Military Casualties
01/03/2014
ForcesWatch’s submission to the Defence Select Committee inquiry on Military Casualties draws on our research published in The Last Ambush.
Military-style discipline to raise standards in state schools
28/01/2014
Former soldiers without degrees will be fast-tracked into teaching and more cadet force units will be established as part of a dramatic expansion of a “military-style” ethos in English state schools
Multicultural Britain rejecting foreign conflict, MoD admits
24/01/2014
Repeat of Afghanistan-or-Iraq-style invasion ruled out for war-weary UK, according to senior officials
Army helps jobseekers towards employment
28/11/2013
Midlands SPEAR (Supporting People into Employment with the Army Reserve) is a pilot scheme created by 143 (West Midlands) Brigade which has caught the attention of government ministers and, if successful, could be rolled out across the UK.
Fighting the ‘Battle of the Narrative’: Communicating Army 2020
A recent course organised for influencers was designed to convey the British Army’s response to a changing strategic landscape. Despite redeployment from Afghanistan and Reserve reorganisation, this exercise emphasised that the British Army is still very much in the war-fighting business.
‘We need more wars’: Head of controversial private outsourcing firm blames lack of conflict for spectacular collapse in Army recruitment since it took charge
The head of a controversial private outsourcing firm accused of presiding over a collapse in Army recruitment has attempted to blame a lack of war for its failure to sign up new soldiers.
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