July 2016

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?...

I expect that the sparking water is flowing freely today at Think Global, ~TIDE global learning, the DECs, and everywhere west of Suez wherever global learning, development education, etc, is promoted.  Why?  Because Justine Greening is the new Education Secretary...

I see that the Department for Education is now to get (back) FE, HE, skills and apprenticeships within its purview.   They have been within BIS (Business, innovation and skills) for so long that I cannot recall, off hand, when they...

The Society for the Environment is organising an Any Questions forum about People, Politics, Planet on July 21st. The blurb says: Britain in a changing Europe.  Join us for the first post-referendum public debate on the future of environmental policy in the...

This is the address of one of the entrances to Paddington station in London using What3Words, a geolocation system that is accurate to within 9 square metres, anywhere on earth.  Given the precision that's available through W3W, the station entrance has...

Another day; another "University Alliance for Sustainability".  I received this blurb the other day: Freie Universität Berlin, together with its four strategic partners, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of British Columbia, St. Petersburg State University, and Peking University, will...

As I noted the other day, EAUC, NUS, UCU, CDN & AoC have launched their survey on perceptions of sustainability in the sector. You can access it here and it should be complete by 31st July What I didn't say is that there's...

SEEd would like us to complete a survey about ESD in the UK whether we've heard about it or not.  In the latter case, don't panic, SEEd says.  Phew! All this is being carried out by a student from the University of Leeds...

The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC), National Union of Students (NUS), University and College Union (UCU), the College Development Network (CDN), the Association of Colleges (AoC) and who knows what, have joined together and launched another survey on...

The Economist has a lively graphic showing the relationship between country GDP per person and the 'social progress index'. It's comments begin: "It has long been said that economic output is too narrow a gauge by which to measure the progress...