April 2019

  • The GCRF / SDG / ESD nexus

    I see that ESRC has invited proposals for a new Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). ESRC says: "Education is not only a fundamental human right, but also an indispensable tool in the pursuit of sustainable development.  However, it is increasingly...

  • NEU Motion 8

    Just before Easter, I wrote about Motion 8 which was passed at the National Education Union [NEU] conference, noting that it wasn't clear what exactly was agreed.  However, thanks, to friends in low places, here is the final text: Climate Change Conference recognises...

  • Urgent telegram to my Swedish friends

    Help   STOP Please send money urgently   STOP Greta Thunberg has lost her return rail ticket to Malmö   STOP She has run out of gullible politicians to lecture   STOP She's said everything at least three times  ...

  • There were four protesters from Stroud ...

    Pity Labour Party stalwart David Lambert, 60, who walked for eight days from Stroud to Islington in order to show love, honour and devotion to his Leader by chaining himself and three comrades to the Leader’s garden fence.  This was...

  • XR and its educational aims

    As I wrote the other day, I am particularly sympathetic to the first aim of the XR movement: The Government must tell the truth about the climate and wider ecological emergency, reverse inconsistent policies and work alongside the media to...

  • Are you Xcited about XR?

    As I noted yesterday, I am sympathetic to the overall purpose of the XR movement.  How can you not be?  I'm not quite sold on their aims, though.  These are: – 1. The Government must tell the truth about the...

  • Protesting v Composting

    Did you take part in the XR protest last week?  Were you there telling it as it is?  Did you sit, devoted, at the feet of Emma Thomson in Oxford Circus as she told her forgiving fans how there was...

  • Thought for Easter from Titania McGrath

    This comes from the activist, healer, radical intersectionalist poet who is "selfless and brave", @TitaniaMcGrath "When women are valued more than men, then and only then will we have achieved true equality." Inspiring.  I hope this keeps you going over...

  • The NEU debates climate change and proposes environmental education

    If you click here you will find Motion 8 which was passed at the National Education Union [NEU] conference the other day.  Actually, you will find the motion and lots of amendments and so it's not clear just what was agreed...

  • What ELSA said to Ofsted

    This is the lengthy response to Amanda Spielman, Ofsted Chief Inspector from the English Learning for Sustainability Alliance [ELSA].  I'm posting it here as I cannot find it on-line and the authors asked for maximum publicity.   Dear Ms Spielman (and copied...