February 2016

I was unaware that Google had acquired a parent company – called Alphabet.  It's a big umbrella under which Google can nestle its many current manifestations, including what it calls its moonshot projects – think driverless cars.  Happily, there's a recent...

It's off to Stonehenge tonight for a series of brief talks arising from the University of Buckingham's Archeology MA class of 2015. The topics are varied: An assessment of the evidence for large animal movement and hunting strategies within the Stonehenge landscape...

WWF-UK sent an email to its supporters last week saying, " ... building on the success of our film last Valentine’s day, please watch the following poignant short (5 minutes) film with Jeremy Irons and Maxine Peake.  It is based...

I mentioned the other day that the Centre for Environmental Education [CEE] in Ahmedabad had held a conference in January on Education as a Driver of Sustainable Development Goals, and that this had produced a plan for action.  As Eliza Doolittle might have...

Being an un-salaried (as opposed to a fully-lapsed) academic means that your life is no longer consumed by the thought of where the next paper is coming from and going to.  In my case this means that my reading to writing...

Down to Earth [DtoE] is a project based on the Gower that started in 2005 and which provides education programmes supporting young people and adults from very different backgrounds.  It says is a "learner-centred approach centred developing well-being and a diverse...

The number of free schools across England (those set up by local social groups, but free of formal local political supervision) continues to grow, and there were around 300 back in September.  This is something I welcome on pragmatic grounds – they are a...

Late on Saturday night, on an obscure radio outlet, the BBC is, catching up with the angst about the problems with economics degrees.  Peter Day's Global Business programme on Educating Economists goes out on Saturday 6 February, at 2232 on the BBC...

When I wrote last summer about the research report that the University of Essex had written for the Wildlife Trusts, it had not been published.  Now it has.  You might recall that I wasn't all that taken with the report....

The Centre for Environmental Education [CEE] in Ahmedabad held a conference last month on Education as a Driver of Sustainable Development Goals, which produced a plan for action, of which more later, no doubt. Another document also emerged from this meeting titled: Goal...