June 2019

I began to blog on this site 10 years ago today on June 10th 2009 and now, some 1900 posts later, I am still at it. The first post was about the south-west learning for sustainability coalition, which collapsed under...

I read that the University of Plymouth is being unfairly criticised for spending a mere £375,000 on the much needed refurbishment of the vice-chancellor’s office while prudently saving £zillions cutting 150 jobs that are now surplus to requirements. Fools!  Who...

When communism fell apart in the USSR there was panic in an unusual sector of the economy: the school examinations industry. What was to become of all those questions about Marxist-Leninist theory and the history of the communist party —...

As I write this, no coal is being used in a UK power station to generate electricity, and it has been this way for a while now.  Indeed, zero-coal records have been set, and if plans come to fruition, the...

The Education in England (the history of our schools) website contains HMI publications including the (1979) second edition of its Curriculum 11-16 Working Papers.  This deals with environmental education because this was a time when HMI took it seriously, unlike Ofsted today....