January 2012

Am I the only one out there who's getting more annoyed by the day with the hectoring moralising that increasingly now comes with emails?  I had one today that said: Please don't print things like emails unnecessarily I was sorely...

Anyone who's suffered in a too-warm, poorly-ventilated classroom lately and wondered why – given that it was a new build to a supposedly eco design, should look for some explanation to a comment in a recent edition of Building4Change published by...

I'll be surprised if DfE were to turn down the recommendations of the expert group that D&T / ICT / Citizenship should become an aspect of the Basic Curriculum in English schools as opposed to the heavily prescribed National Curriculum....

Foot note 30 (page 14) to the expert panel's report to government refers to an 1882 publication [ Page T (ed): Moffatt’s Pupil Teachers’ Course: First Year (London: Moffatt & Paige) ] with this quote: The ‘New Code’ detailed in this...

Think Global has welcomed the report of the national curriculum expert panel.  It has not, however, explicitly welcomed the recommendations.  This is perhaps unsurprising given that its core notions of global citizenship / learning are conspicuously absent from the report,...

Initially, I wondered what to make of the expert group's proposal to government that an aim of the curriculum ought to be to ... Promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally My first reaction...

In the last post, I referred to (and welcomed) the Expert Panel's recommendations to government about revisions to the English national curriculum.  This posting builds on that by setting out those aspects of the review document that relate to sustainability....

Just before Christmas, the DfE published a report by the expert panel set up to guide the English national curriculum review process.  This is now available on the DfE website.  The DfE says: This report summarises the Expert Panel’s thinking...

I'm pleased to have been appointed to the Higher Education Academy's new ESD advisory group which has just been reconstituted to make it more representative of the sector and of interests, with a sharpening of focus.  That is good evidence...

I should declare an interest at the outset: I am a big fan of the Large Hadron Collider, and in complete awe of its purpose. There is a story (true, I'm told) of an American physicist appearing before an Senate...