November 2017

  • How young people experience the SDGs across the UK

    As I noted yesterday, I am at St George's House, Windsor, at a consultation with a focus on young people and the sustainable development goals.  As an introduction to four presentations (from across the UK) about what they are trying to achieve when...

  • The background to the St George's House consultation on the SDGs

    As I noted earlier today, I'll be at St George's House Windsor this week at a consultation on young people and the SDGs.  This is what the background paper to the consultation has to say. 2015 saw the Paris Agreement and the...

  • Talking about the sustainable development goals

    I shall be at St George's House, Windsor on Thursday and Friday, at a consultation with a focus on young people and the sustainable development goals.  I have worked with Jamie Agombar from the NUS to organise this.  There will be...

  • Margrethe Vestager

    If I have a contemporary hero it would be Margrethe Vestager, the EU commissioner for competition who is proving a scourge of those bent on global dominance; that is, the IT mega corporations.  They may not pay their taxes, but they...

  • Remember to press 'record' if the Inquisition comes calling

    That's the lesson the admirable Lindsay Shepherd teaches us despite her ordeal at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.  She's a teaching assistant (and grad student) who was taking a first-year communication studies class on pronouns.  In doing this, she used a short...

  • Obsessed by the Goals?

    You may have noticed that I've been writing about the sustainable development goals a lot recently.  This is, in large part, because of the forthcoming consultation at St George's House on the goals and young people.  But, looking back at...

  • An SDG teach-in to look forward to

    NUS is holding an Sustainable Development Goals [SDG] Teach-in, asking academics in UK universities and colleges ... "to pledge to include the UN Sustainable Development Goals in their teaching, learning, and assessment during the week of 19 to 23 February 2018",...

  • Global learning and education for training dogs

    I mentioned Harriet Marshall the other day.  In addition to the work that I wrote about then, Harriet has also summarised what she sees as six successful models of SDG practice that can be found across UK Primary, Middle and Secondary schools....

  • UK Sustainable Development Goal stats from the ONS

    Given the UKSSD plan to promote the Sustainable Development Goals that I mentioned yesterday, it's a happy circumstance that sees the Office for National Statistics [ONS] publishing its first progress report on the Goals.  This is available on the ONS website where...

  • At last, a national plan

    No, not for Brexit or the NHS / social care or a federal constitution (though all need one), but for the SDGs.  UKSSD has jumped into the void.  It says: "Two years after the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed, the...