An online forum on Educating Service Children run by the House of Commons Defence Committee

Young people

We would like to hear from young people who are the children of Service personnel. If you have been to Service schools abroad, we would like to know how you found them. And we would like to know how you found things when your parents returned to the UK, or were posted to a different part of the UK.

We would like to hear both the good and the bad things. And we would like to know any ideas you have for improving the educational experience for children of Service families (for example, ways of making you more welcome when you move school, or ways of making things easier when your parent is deployed abroad).

  • What has been your experience of education, both in Service schools abroad and in the UK?
  • Have you got ideas for improvements?

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Thank you for your insights

Posted by Committee Member on 09/05/2006 - 15:53

Thank you for your insights into what life in the services (or support roles) means for your education. These insights will be invaluable when we come to drafting our report. We have drawn on some of them in asking questions of the Minister and his team recently.

Some of your answers have given me some idea of barriers there might be to young people going on to further and higher education (funding and turbulence being two)

Are there other things which put young people in service families off going on to further or higher education?

The government is keen to look at what can be done to help people generally with this and I wonder if there are any special aspects of service life which affect you think about your future?

Linda Gilroy MP

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