November 2016

I did as I was encouraged to do the other day and looked at the new SORTED resources on sustainability on EAUC's Sustainability Exchange website.  Its aimed at the FE sector, and the first thing that you read is this nonsense:...

I heard a bloke on BBC Radio 4 say that, in 10 years, you won't be able to buy a pair of shoes that don't have an IP address.  Smart in more senses than one, then. I suppose the advantage...

The boys and girls at people 'n' planet have released their 2016 league tables so that everyone can admire their performance – or keep very quiet about it depending where they rest.  As before, P&P have created class divisions (how appropriate) with a...

The phone rings; it's the Trump Transition Team (TTT, ardently armoured of alliteration) calling.  It's an invitation to Trump Towers to make a presentation to the President Elect and the team.  They say that their current plan is that, on Day...

There is now an opportunity for the right individual to join The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country as Chair of Trustees.  What's unusual, is that the Trust has made the person spec publicly available.  Here it is:...

This is the presentation I made at the CPRT conference last week in a small group session about global leaning and sustainable development, chaired by Kevin Bailey: The SDGs as a radical curriculum alternative? The sustainable development goals were agreed by...

I wrote yesterday about Jesuitical tendencies in Liverpool that were on show at the Cambridge Primary Review Trust event last week, but there was more to the conference than that.  I liked the way that the whole thing was organised...

... and the world will be a nicer place. That seemed to be the message from one of the presentations I listened to at the Primary Education: what is and what might be conference last Friday.  The excellent event was...

The 8th of November might have been a good day for American coal, at least in the short term.  But the previous year had been quite good as the Telegraph reported last week with the global price of coal rising 100%...

I see that Wiltshire is to have a new university – its first.  This will be c/o James Dyson who, fed up with the lack of engineers to choose from for his business, has decided to do something about it....