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Radio 4,2 mins

Do home-educated children find the world of work harder?

Woman's Hour

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Is the myth that home-educated children find the 'real world' harder true? Vickie who 'unschools' her daughter and Callie Vandewiele who was home educated in the US and is now completing her PhD at Cambridge University discuss the merits along with Dr Helen Lees, Reader in Alternative Education Studies at Newman University in Birmingham.

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