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Alan Smithers: Home education's time may have come

"Home education's time, therefore, may have come. It is specifically listed as an accepted method of full-time education up to age 18 and it is exempted from the requirement to be following a curriculum leading to a recognised qualification. As well as the growing numbers claimed by home education enthusiasts, its ranks could thus be swelled by those wishing to escape the government's impositions on 16 to 18 year-olds."