April 2017

It is being said that the UK has one of the worst records for protecting native wildlife, and intensive farming is largely to blame.  56% of the 8,000 species assessed have declined in the past four decades with almost 1,200 species at...

I spend 6 days with Mrs M last week; well not with her exactly, but being in Germany amounts to much the same thing, the degree of social conformity you're faced with.  The sight of grown men (and women) standing at a...

In 1980, in A View of the Curriculum; HMI Series: Matters for Discussion No. 11, HMI said this: The curriculum, whether for a school as a whole or for individual pupils, has to be presented as more than a series of...

EAUC has launched a Fellows programme; you can find a full list of Fellows here. It is always difficult to draw up such lists and, individually, we may well be surprised about (to us) obvious omissions and/or odd choices.  Personally, I think...

In the 1980s, it was commonplace for English governments to copy, rather uncritically, educational initiatives from the USA.  It was, I suppose, an example of post-cultural cringe.  Those days are long gone. There is nothing necessary problematic about looking around to see...

As I noted back in early March, I wrote to Ofsted asking about the speech made by the new Chief Inspector (to the ASCL conference).  At the same time, I also wrote to the DfE asking, in particular, about this part of her speech: "I...

The Economist article, Friction lovers, was, in part, about the UN's DONUT [ Don't NUdge; Tell ] office that is promoting what is known (by some) as facile externality. It was also about that well-known socio-technical phenomenon, the IKEA Effect, and contained a lot...

UNESCO, in an attempt to stay relevant in the fast-changing, fluid world of gender politics within the UN family, has announced a new educational initiative: trans-ESD, which is to sit alongside the more usual ESD which is to be termed...