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I've been reading the arguments made following the recent House of Commons Education select committee call for submissions on the purpose and quality of education in England.  Written evidence was invited to address the following: What the purpose of education for children of...

What's the EU ever done for us? is clearly a topical question, if not always an easy one to answer.  Here's an answer of sorts that I recently received from 'the continent' ... "Not much, apart from: providing 57% of our trade;...

Dear me!  I hear that UNESCO is planning to develop a "guiding framework on the interlinkages between the SDGs and specific ESD-related skills" so that education policy-makers, curriculum developers and educators across the world can do what they usually do with such...

I ask, not because Trump has done this to me – and it seems unlikely he ever would, unless I start writing about Mexicans – but because an academic equivalent has – that is, someone I usually put in the same sort...

In a resolution entitled “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)”, the United Nation's general assembly [GA] has reaffirmed UNESCO’s role as lead agency for the implementation of the Global Action Programme on ESD, the follow-up of the ESD Decade....

UNESCO is sidelining its flagging ESD project.  Although its website recently had this headline: Education for Sustainable Development placed firmly on the COP21 map ... it was followed by this: "The critical role of education in climate change was given the stamp...

This is not my question.  It's a headline in today's Times Higher [THE]. Needless to say, it's got nothing to do with the sort of sustainability that usually features in this blog.  Rather, it's about the financial viability of higher...

One of the issues that Michael Finus discussed last Tuesday night in his I-SEE seminar was the Kaya Identity, which is an equation relating to human impact on climate.  I had not come across it before – such a sheltered life! The idea...

Flush from the triumph of its first UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD, UNESCO has issued a second call for nominations for the next round (2016) where three lucky winners will receive $US 50,000.  It was awarded for the first time in November 2015 to organizations...

The NAEE blog recently carried a guest posting from Geoffrey Guy who lectures at Reaseheath College, and is the Director of Education for Bushcraft Education Ltd, and founder of the Bushcraft Education blog.  It was about the enclosure of land and...