The Quality Assurance Agency [QAA] has a new resource out for consultation: Enterprise and entrepreneurship education: guidance for UK higher education providers. QAA says that this ... "has been developed by representatives drawn from, and acting on behalf of, the enterprise...

Michael Gove, England's Secretary of State for Education, has lovingly crafted his perfect (national) curriculum based on what every English boy and girl should know about the country's history, culture, achievements, values, etc, whilst re-designing the  English education system so that...

I wrote recently about Mark Lynas's Damascene conversion to GM.  Here he is again, testing out his position against the views of an eminent US scientist, Nina Fedoroff.  Oh that we all did the equivalent of that! And here, for...

I had a pretty standard cup of Starbucks coffee the other day; unwontedly, I should say.   I was on a train and only saw the logo when the drink was on my little table.  I drank it anyway, my liquid...

Alongside the (rather positive) notion that children in schools (up to 14) should have an entitlement to classes wherein they are helped to learn to cook "healthy and wholesome" (but only "savoury") meals, there is, I am told, the completely...

I’ve been reading my way through the material produced by the QAA and a clutch of universities in the online Guide to Quality and Education for Sustainability in HE. I began with the various video talking heads, and I was...

The draft national curriculum proposals for design technology has this to say in relation to food (growing / cooking / eating): In Key Stages 1 to 3 pupils should be taught progressively more demanding practical knowledge, skills and crafts, working...

This was supposed to be the title of brief article I wrote for Primary Geography, and which has just been published.  Unfortunately, in the editing process, everything before, and including, the colon got lost, and I am left with the...

I gave a talk the other day to around 170 6th form students at Bath's Prior Park College which is based in and around Ralph Allen's home.  Quite a setting! Sadly, I talked in a somewhat more modern part of...

The DfE announced last week that computer science has been added to the list of science subjects that count towards the EBacc.  This has been widely welcomed, albeit with some extravagant hype about Alan Turing's legacy.  Here's a flavour ......