Camp Quest seems to have attracted a large amount of media (our media section) coverage as the first ‘atheist summer camp’ in the UK. Many were quick to judge and wrote inaccurate stories of exactly what we would do and how we were set out to indoctrinate. A donation from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for [...]

A recent series of articles in the Sunday Times (printed 28/6/2009) has caused significant media interest and unfortunately the dissemination of incorrect information.
Camp Quest is often labelled as an ‘atheist camp’ as we have a non-religious ethos, but we are open to the children from parents of all belief systems and none. Articles frame Camp [...]

Our marketing campaign organised by Christian Schneider, has already proved to be a resounding success has within hours of going live, traffic to our site has sky-rocketed from an average 50-100 hits a day to over 600 in the first few hours!
Christian worked hard to secure banner space on some of the most prominent freethinking [...]

from nationalgeographic
Monkeys and birds in West Africa may be inadvertently pitching together to protect themselves. A new study says the hornbill can understand different diana monkey alarm calls and respond accordingly. Also, monkeys have been found to use birdcalls as early-warning systems. Various yelps, hoots, screams, squawks, and other vocalizations are used by many species [...]

Scientists have achieved a world first by tracking an asteroid heading straight for our planet and have even recovered its remnants scattered in a desert in Africa.
The object - nearly as big as a double-decker bus - was spotted by telescope and tracked as it hurtled towards the Earth’s atmosphere, where it exploded over the [...]

Some of the problems highlighted by Philip Barnes in current religious education (RE) may be legitimate. One survey of pupils may well indicate pupil dissatisfaction with RE as taught in schools. But we cannot pass smoothly on from this one survey in one county to assert that this is because the subject itself is nationally [...]

Abseiling, acting or atheism - whatever their passion, there is a residential camp to suit the kids

We have been listed in the Times as one of the best summer camps for kids in the UK. The response has been amazing and our places are filling, to secure your place please visit the camp 2009 [...]

A landmark report has indicated that tens of thousands of children are underachieving because of patchy standards in Scottish schools.
The report, Improving Scottish Education, reveals concerns about the performance of a third of the council education departments which have direct control over schools, with the watchdog embarking on a programme of monitored improvement.
The Scottish Government’s [...]

Secondary schools in England are to pilot a “twinned” maths GCSE - in which maths could be taken as a double subject, worth two GCSEs.
This will allow pupils to study the subject in greater breadth and depth, in both pure and applied maths. The schools testing the idea would begin doing so in September [...]

Lord Drayson himself studied science A-levels and has a PhD

A government minister has said he is calling in copies of GCSE and A-level science exam papers to satisfy himself they are not being “dumbed down”.
Science Minister Lord Drayson said it was vital that the brightest and best pupils were stretched by education.
He made the [...]