April 2013

When I wrote about the NUS the other day, I mentioned Hefce's catalyst fund as this was the source of the students' windfall.  The fund has two major goals, both now focused on delivering the public and collective student interests...

In 2006, BBC  Radio 2 broadcast a series of radio ballads that were based on the original and iconic late 1950s stories and songs about industrial life that involved Ewan McColl, Peggy Seager, and many others.  The 2006 versions reflected the...

There has been much fuss recently about the 'removal' of climate change from the English national curriculum, and the evils that will result.  I have already touched on this in respect of geography teaching, and feel likely  [Add heavy heart...

Hefce has just pressed £5m into the NUS palm c/o its Catalyst Fund.  Here are the outline details from the funding council ... The funding will help students to engage with their universities and colleges on sustainable development, and to...

I'm pleased to report that those selfless UNECE folk have been travelling round Europe again, staying in nice hotels, in order to instruct the rest of us in how to live sustainably. But we should not carp!  Indeed, our collective...

A spokesperson for the Department of Education, Dr Ratko O'Malley, confirmed today that the DfE is to buy 800,000 copies of Gary Thomas's new OUP publication, Education: A Very Short Introduction, which was published last week.  These will be distributed...