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To help prepare for the UNESCO ESDFest, there was a catchphrase and logo competition with the aim of helping people easily understand the concept of ESD.  The winning catchphrase entry was from Noriko Kawamura, an elementary school teacher in Toyota City....

I hear via social media that the opening morning of the Aichi-Nagoya ESDFest was a gas, and rather surreal in places, with dancing girls, drums, violins, a crown prince, a real princess, and a video from Ban Ki Moon.  It...

Steve Martin and I have sent this to the THE, the Guardian, the Indy, and the TES, noting, with disapproval, the absence of any governmental representation at the ESDFest in Japan. Dear Sir, Education and Sustainable Development – The UK...

Will you be at Aichi-Nagoya, I mean, for UNESCO's latest ESDFest which starts today?  It has been billed by the terminally optimistic as the beginning to the end of the world's problems.  This, on balance, may be somewhat exaggerated, and I hope...

On October 23rd, I wrote to Hefce's CEO, Professor Madeleine Atkins, about the Council's new (but still draft) Sustainable Development Framework.  My purpose was to say that I hoped that a sentiment which Hefce expressed in 2009 would be included in the 2014 document....

I can remember much moral panic a few years back amongst education researchers of a particular bent who were worried that students (who were mostly too young to know better) thought that the stratospheric ozone hole was contributing to global warming and...

Any residual, thoughts I had that I might yet attend ECER 2015 in Budapest have been completely scuppered by two new bit of info. The first is the knowledge that Michael W Apple is a keynote speaker.  Listening to the...

I've been reading the NUT's new manifesto for education (schools) in England.  It does not take long.  It has also produced one for Wales which I could not bring myself to look at.  The NUT seems to have turned itself into...

If you’ve not seen Hans Rosling speaking about the magic of the washing machine on this TED talk, you really should.  These machines produce books, you know.  It's instructive to listen to the audience's nervous laughter, as it realises where the...

I had an email recently from Tom Franklin, Think Global’s CEO.  Maybe you did too.  He invited me for lunch (and an AGM).  Sadly, I was busy.  I was struck that his very short message included all the following phrases: global learning...