Bill Scott
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Bill Scott20 November 2023
Post-NAEE opportunities
At the NAEE AGM last Saturday morning I ceased after 7 years to be a trustee and, hence, chair of the trustee board. Truly, it has been a privilege to be part of its 52 year old heritage, dating as...
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Bill Scott18 November 2023
What is a small l liberal to think?
I read that young people in Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, Luton and London have been leaving school to march calling for a ceasefire in the Hamas – Israel conflict that was caused by the terrorist group's genocidal attack on Israeli civilians...
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Bill Scott16 November 2023
Foofaraw and Planet Earth
I read that "BBC Earth commissioned a multi-country online quantitative study to examine the impact of watching natural history content on viewers’ emotions. This was conducted in partnership with an international panel company, with data collected and weighted to be...
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Bill Scott13 November 2023
A Final Goodbye to Nick Gibb
In today's government reshuffle, which sees Lord David "hug a husky" Cameron back in the cabinet, spare a thought for the once great survivor, Nick Gibb who has surely been sacked for the last time. Gibb, a voice for high...
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Bill Scott12 November 2023
How ways to address the climate crisis are presented in UK national curricula
Thanks to NAEE's weekly news round-up for an alert to a new policy brief from the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath on the climate crisis in UK national curricula. The author, Katharine Lee, says that the...
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Bill Scott9 November 2023
Cheers for Bill Gates
I don't usually have too many positive things to say about Bill Gates – he did after all give us the Microsoft operating system – but in an interview with Our World in Data he makes an important point about...
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Bill Scott5 November 2023
Is the DfE Monitoring You?
The Guardian, has reported that officials at the DfE have been conducting social media surveillance on a number of UK education specialists who've had the temerity to criticise government policy. The paper reported: "Officials at the DfE also tried to...
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Bill Scott2 November 2023
I see! Chemistry at its best
I recently watched an informative and enjoyable I-SEE webinar. The title was: Net Zero and Zero Emissions and it was given by Professor Bill David FRS, from Oxford. He has a particular interest in "clean, green ammonia". It was chemistry...
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Bill Scott31 October 2023
Critical Thinking and Climate Change Solutions
Alison Anderson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Plymouth has written an article for the Academy of Social Sciences on How the education system can help to fight the climate crisis. The article begins: We are living in a...
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Bill Scott29 October 2023
Who Regulates Naturalists?
I note much recent discussion about the lack of a regulatory structure for psychotherapists and counsellors (and nutritionists). This got me wondering about naturalists * – this is a reference the press often gives to folk who opine about environmental...