Not that Justine Greening is the new education secretary of state, will she tolerate DfID's running its own rival schools programme, or will she want to draw it into the hugely-expanded DfE house, and use this to facilitate much-needed curriculum reform?
Will Greening be one of those reforming secretaries of state that take the idea of education and curriculum seriously, do you think? A lot might depend on whether she understands what curriculum is.
Did you see that Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience in London: “We have two years to save the world.” I didn't and am grateful to Dominic Lawson in The Times...
Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions. It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...
Our World in Data [OWD] reports that a 2024 study in Nature Climate Change asked around 130,000 people if they’d be willing to give at least 1% of their income to tackle climate change, and that, across a 125-country sample,...