September 2019

  • Teaching the Future

    This is a new campaign by SOS-UK, UKSCN and XR-Educators to pressure government for curriculum change and a range of other supportive actions.  In outline, this is what it will be asking for: – a Government commissioned review / enquiry /...

  • Greta Thunberg scolds world leaders at the UN

    Here is a full transcript of Greta Thunberg's speech to the UN.  It's on Treehugger. "This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come...

  • To learn stuff, or to learn to protest, that is the question

    The DfE is clear on the climate protests; children should be in school learning stuff.  Speaking on Radio 4’s Today, the ubiquitous reshuffle survivor Nick Gibb MP said that although the government shared young people’s concern about climate change, ......

  • 4 million voices

    I've seen it reported that over 4 million young and not so young people were on the streets last Friday in 163 countries.  Who can doubt it.  The UK reporting I have seen inevitably focused on London, but this was...

  • Time to listen to Stern Camden women

    What should individuals, communities, schools and universities do about climate change? is the title of a seminar today at the Grantham Institute.  As I'm having another London-free week, I'm not there. Here's the description: In July 2019, the UK set a...

  • Climate (change) educators help the DfE make its point

    My comments last week about the latest iteration of the DfE straight bat reminded me that NAEE recently featured a story about climate education in a primary school in North Tyne which is working with the creators of the eduCCate...

  • A 3 stage climate change curriculum

    I was criticised the other day because one of my posts was seen as unhelpful.  It was a fair cop, but then not all my comments in the blog are meant to be helpful.  This one is though ... Now...

  • Greta the musical

    Someone who should, perhaps, have known better persuaded Greta Thunberg to deliver her message (old folks have failed, politicians have failed, the Earth is burning, woe is us, I don't do humour, etc) to a musical background provided by The...

  • How green is my university

    Today's THE, in noting that climate change will "likely top the international news agenda later this month when young people across the world walk out of schools, colleges and universities ahead of a crucial summit on the subject being held...

  • Greta refuses to zoom

    I see that the saintly, and surely soon-to-be ennobled, Greta Thunberg, with her dad, has made it to the Americas in a flash boat so that she can keep up her no-flying promise.  This is no ordinary boat, of course,...