About Issues Today

Issues Today is a series of resource books on contemporary social issues for the 11 to 14 age group (Key Stage 3), based on the concept behind the popular Issues series for 14- to 18-year-olds. We believe that the earlier young people can begin to discuss and study social matters, the sooner they will start to understand the many and varied issues that shape our society – and its members – on a daily basis.

Each volume contains information from a variety of sources, including government reports and statistics, newspaper and magazine articles, surveys and polls, academic research and literature from charities and lobby groups. The information has been tailored to an 11 to 14 age group; it has been rewritten and presented in a simple, straightforward format to be accessible to Key Stage 3 students. In addition, all titles are fully photocopiable.

Each Issues Today title also features handy tasks and assignments based on the information contained in the book, for use in class, for homework or as a revision aid. Now you can provide your younger pupils with a framework to look at social issues in a structured way.

Issues Today can be used as a learning resource in a number of Key Stage 3 subjects, including English, Science, History, Geography, PSHE, Citizenship, Sex and Relationships Education and RE.

Issues Today publications

Issues Today News

Please note that from April 2008, Issues Today will change from a monthly to a termly series. Titles will be published at a rate of four per term instead of the current one per month.

Eight titles were published in the Issues Today series in its launch year of 2007. These are now available to buy as individual titles. Please click here to download an order form, or telephone us on 01223 550801.

Subscribers can look forward to an additional 12 titles in 2008, which will include Climate Change, Cloning, Terrorism and Religion and Belief.

Subscribing to Issues Today

Issues Today books will be published monthly from January to April 2008, and termly thereafter at a rate of four per term. Subscribers for the year 2008 will therefore receive 12 titles in all: one per month in January, February, March and April, four at the start of the April term and four at the start of the September term.

The cost of a 2008 Issues Today subscription will be £79.95, including all 12 titles to be published as well as p&p.

If you want to find out more about Issues Today without committing yourself to a year’s subscription, don’t worry: just sign up, and we will send you Volume 9: Religion and Belief, along with your 2008 invoice. If you then decide the Issues Today series is not for you, just return the book to us within 14 days and there will be no charge.

Provided you have not cancelled your subscription, we will send you any other volumes published at the time of your order and will continue to send you new titles in the Issues Today series monthly until April, and termly thereafter. You can therefore subscribe at any time in 2008 to receive all 12 titles to be published during the year. You will automatically be invoiced every January, when you will again have the option to cancel your subscription to Issues Today.

To find out more about Issues Today, click here to download a PDF of the Issues Today brochure, which includes an order form.

Click here to find out more about publications in the Issues Today series.