September 2019

  • More backward defence strokes from the DfE

    I see in today's NAEE weekly update that DfE was asked over the Summer whether it had any plans to require teacher training institutions to cover sustainability issues.  DfE said: "... there are no plans to amend the Teachers’ Standards....

  • School climate strikes in Germany

    An NAEE weekly round up in August provided a link to a long article in spiegel-on-line about how the school climate strikes in Germany have evolved over the past year. There was a week-long summer conference in Dortmund at the...

  • The history of humans in zoos

    As I may have mentioned, I'm no great fan of zoos; at worst they seems little more than prisons where humans gawp at the inmates, not all of whom are kept in decent conditions; at best, well, ... I never...