Home Educators
Help your children to get ahead with home learning
Latest Government figures suggest that there may be 55,000 home educated children and young people but there could be as many as 150,000, the equivalent of 1-2% of the school population.
Home schooling is becoming increasingly popular. It allows you to tailor your children’s education to their particular interests and allows them to fit education around their life.
Improving your prospects
As the number of home-schoolers multiplies, more students are making the leap from home to college, creating new challenges for students and colleges alike.
If your child is one of the increasing number of young learners being schooled at home, an NEC course can help to gain ever-important qualifications in a competitive jobs market to help build a brighter future.
Whether you are educating your child at home or you would like to give extra support in areas which your child finds difficult, NEC is here to help you by providing you with the flexibility to tailor your child's education via high quality home study courses.
Why study at home with NEC?
Tutor support - our tutors are experts in their subjects and in how to deliver them via distance learning.
Quality materials - we provide high-quality and up-to-date study materials produced by experts in the field and specifically designed for learning at home.
Experience - we have over 40 years' experience in home study courses with the widest choice of GCSEs, IGCSEs and A levels.
Trust - being a not-for-profit organisation we put our time and money into providing the best courses and student support for you.
Results - taking a home study course with NEC can lead to a higher than average exam results – and highly motivated learners! In somes cases top 5 marks in the country.
Esmée Fairbairn Parents’ Guides to GCSEs Project
In 2006 NEC was awarded a grant from the Esmée Fairburn Foundation towards the costs of developing and piloting resource materials over two years and testing them with parents and young people to support the needs of young people
NEC's First Home Education Workshop looks at ways ahead for GCSEs
At a workshop held in London in 2008, a group of home educators spent the day examining how possible models for the next round of GCSEs will affect the independent learner. Also under discussion were IGCSEs and other qualifications on offer. For more information, please click here
The eight Parents’ Guides to GCSEs have been extensively revamped, refreshed and re-titled, and we are re-launching them with the addition of two Generic Guides which are being sent, free of charge, to help parents support school age students who have enrolled on NEC distance learning courses. The Guides can also be downloaded below.
Specialist FAQs
NEC has worked with Home Educators for 45 years and we have developed a wide ranging set of questions tailored to this sector.
Click here to download our Home Educator Specialist FAQs.
We hope that the information below will be useful to you and we look forward to welcoming you to NEC.
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