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Being an un-salaried (as opposed to a fully-lapsed) academic means that your life is no longer consumed by the thought of where the next paper is coming from and going to.  In my case this means that my reading to writing...

Down to Earth [DtoE] is a project based on the Gower that started in 2005 and which provides education programmes supporting young people and adults from very different backgrounds.  It says is a "learner-centred approach centred developing well-being and a diverse...

The number of free schools across England (those set up by local social groups, but free of formal local political supervision) continues to grow, and there were around 300 back in September.  This is something I welcome on pragmatic grounds – they are a...

Late on Saturday night, on an obscure radio outlet, the BBC is, catching up with the angst about the problems with economics degrees.  Peter Day's Global Business programme on Educating Economists goes out on Saturday 6 February, at 2232 on the BBC...

When I wrote last summer about the research report that the University of Essex had written for the Wildlife Trusts, it had not been published.  Now it has.  You might recall that I wasn't all that taken with the report....

The Centre for Environmental Education [CEE] in Ahmedabad held a conference last month on Education as a Driver of Sustainable Development Goals, which produced a plan for action, of which more later, no doubt. Another document also emerged from this meeting titled: Goal...

Is it?  I ask because it's chief promoter, Pearson, seems to be.  The Times reports that not only is Pearson shedding 10% of its workforce (4,000 jobs, world-wide), but that it is also paying dividends by taking on more debt....

I watched a very smooth man on TV yesterday explaining that Google pays corporation tax at 20% (like other companies in the UK), and that there had been no "sweetheart deals" with HMRC in the arrangement to pay £130m in 10 years...

Thanks to Chris Southwood for alerting me to the Christmas message [ actually, a school inspection update ] to all Ofsted Inspectors from its national director (education), Sean Hartford.  By and large, it is not full of festive cheer. The update...

I have been a bit critical of the bloated nature of the new sustainable development goals, but that should not blind us to the potential that they have for focusing attention on solutions to the world's problems. In particular, the...