Bill Scott's blog
Thoughts on learning, sustainability and the link between them
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What our troubled world needs most right now is obviously more meaningless educational jargon to add to the already full bran tub. Happily, at our hour of greatest need, TEESNet pops up to deliver. The jargon in question is Learning...
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Bath's 11 Principles
The University of Bath has agreed eleven Climate Action Framework principles through discussions with staff, campus trade unions and the students’ union [SU]. These principles will guide how the University conducts business and inform the development of its next steps to meet...
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Honing civil servant skills
I've been reading three letters sent recently to Teach the Future. Two came from the DfE (one from the office of the secretary of state himself, and the other from some obscure Baroness), and the third was from a bloke in...
Latest posts
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Lomborg on Stiglitz on Lomborg
You might think that Bjorn Lomborg’s new book False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet would be in the UK news more than it has been, given how interested...
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Caste not the first stone
Last week's Economist had a long article on the caste system in India – Hinduism's original sin. I read this with the sustainable development goals in mind, although the author(s) did not mention them. You can read the article here....
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So, John Muir, human after all
It appears that John Muir (1838 – 1914) was not a perfect human being after all. Despite his huge contributions to conservation in the USA with lasting legacies to this day, it seems he was a product of his time. He...
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SARS-CoV-19 lockdown Haiku
I've been writing limericks with my grandchildren. Although I never find it easy to construct a good one where the story develops through the 5 lines, it's usually a fun process. [*] I was tempted to write haiku with them,...
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The internalised wombs of Totnes, Glastonbury, Frome and Stroud
Conformation, if it were needed, that XR is a well-heeled South of England phenomenon. A study by the Universities of Exeter, Keele and Aston finds that those XR activists lying down for a week on Oxford Street last year were overwhelmingly...
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Petroleum engineering – quo vadis?
I listened into a conversation the other day about petroleum engineering courses in UK universities. In this, one of the contributors expressed surprise – shock almost – that such courses still existed, given what we know about climate change and...
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Well done Gavin Williamson
I've never uttered these words before. In fact, I'm not sure anyone has, and our benighted secretary of state for education is usually the recipient of criticism not compliment. This has been doubly so in the last month or three...