British Humanist Association has launched a new website of resources to support learning about Humanism at www.humanismforschools.org.uk, including videos featuring celebrated children’s author Philip Pullman. At the heart of the new site are six ‘toolkits’ of resources, each containing a slideshow of videos and other content, supported by teachers’ notes and student worksheets. In addition, downloadable PDFs contain revised versions of the BHA’s briefings on ethical and philosophical issues from a humanist perspective, previously hosted on the BHA’s main website and much used by teachers and students. Videos integrated into the toolkits (but also available to download from the site for use in other contexts) include humanists talking about their beliefs and values.

Scotland is a small country of around 5 million people who are mostly clustered in a few large cities. Although it's part of the UK, Scotland has devolved government and operates a separate educational system from its neighbour, England.

For six full days, from 25th to 31st December 2007, over 60 participants from several regions of the Indian sub-continent gathered at IHEU Member Organisation Viveka College of Education in Chirala to discuss, to debate and to learn about Humanism, Rationalism and Secularism. Activities started at the crack of dawn and ended only well past midnight.

The Humanist Society of Scotland is launching its inaugural student essay competition, and invites students at Universities and Colleges of Higher and Further Education in Scotland to submit 1,000 word articles on the subject of sexual morality with the aim of winning a first prize of £500 with two runner-up prizes of £300 and £200 respectively.

IHEU member organization the Institute for Humanist Studies has made its online e-learning materials on Humanism freely available to all. Starting now, anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can learn about Humanism for free.

The Continuum of Humanist Education (COHE) is the world's first online, interactive Humanist educational program. The Institute for Humanist Studies founded COHE in 2004.

IHEU has made a strong start to its campaign against popular superstition with the launch on 27 August 2007 of a unique Science Education Program in India.

The project is managed by two IHEU member organisations, the Social Development Foundation (SDF) and the Indian Radical Humanist Association (IRHA), and has been fully funded by IHEU in the amount of 6,000 Euros. The Science Education Program will engage the services of a full time resource person, deliver anti-superstition activist training in several parts of India and also adopt five villages and five village schools in remote areas of Nalgonda, one of the most backward districts of Andhra Pradesh state. At a conservative estimate, the project will have a direct and long-term impact on 500 school-going children and 7,500 adults.

By the Universities Tests Act of 1871, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK became ‘freely accessible to the nation’. There was to be no discrimination against Catholics, Jews, Non-conformists and agnostics or atheists (except against women), and no obligation to subscribe to any religious belief (except for professors of divinity) or attend any form of public worship.

IHEU member organization Libre Pensée has condemned the decision of the Council of Europe to reject Guy Langagne’s report on the dangers of creationism in education, and has demanded that the report be placed on the agenda for the next meeting of the Council’s parliamentary assembly.

IHEU was represented at a seminar held at the European Parliament on 17 April 2007 on Evolution and Religious Fundamentalism in European Education. The seminar was jointly hosted by Swedish MEP, Maria Carlshamre, and the Swedish Humanist Association. The main speakers were Professors Richard Dawkins and Steve Jones who comprehensively demolished the pretensions of the creationists, and Wanda Nowicka from Poland who spoke about the increasingly oppressive regime in her country. The seminar was organised in response to one hosted in October 2006 by a Polish MEP at which speakers claimed that recent scientific evidence shows that humans co-existed with dinosaurs and that our children are being brainwashed by the theory of evolution. Roy Brown spoke on the need to promote our secular values in response to the fundamentalist onslaught.

Investigate your life by the light of the midnight sun! IHEYO member organization Norwegian Humanist Association (HEF) wants to gather young humanists from the whole of Europe to get to know each other, get know themselves better, learn more about humanism and have a great week. It is hoped that there will be one contingent leader and 5-10 participants from each country.