By youth activists Isabelle Mathews and Sivitha Sivakumar and members of the Eco-club of Manchester Enterprise Academy Central with Claire Cameron (IOE) 20 November 2019 is the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.…
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Are 16-year-olds prepared for politics? Or are they over-protected from controversy and debate?
Alex Standish. Increasingly, children and young people are stepping into political arenas that have been considered the realm of adults. In an insecure world, they are campaigning for their own lives and futures. In the UK this year, students joined…
Tagged with: March For Our Lives, political engagement and young people, voting age
Posted in Social sciences and social policy, young people
Posted in Social sciences and social policy, young people
Russell Brand is wrong: young people should vote and schools should do more to encourage them
Germ Janmaat Britain has the dubious reputation of topping the league table on the generation gap in voting. In no other western country is the difference between old and young people so large. While only 44 per cent of people in their…
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