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Every once in a while, some Think Tank or other publishes a report (the contents of which it usually takes pains to accept no responsibility for) about the brain / green washing of delicate young minds by politically-motivated teachers and...

In my time, I have sat through many a cheerless meeting trying to fathom the relationship between ESD and EFA, with Venn diagrams and other aids to understanding usually thick on the ground.  It’s a popular myth that EFA /...

Well, if you are, and you are open-minded about globalisation, and want to help your students be the same, you might well look at this week’s Schumpter column in The Economist.  But, if you’re not, and you want youngsters to...

I hear that the redoubtable Sara Parkin has been appointed to the Board of the Higher Education Academy [HEA], and the welcome sound of feathers being ruffled is already audible.  This is evidence I'm told, by those who know about such...

Thursday evening's BBC Radio 4 PM programme had an interview with the Defra secretary of state, Owen Patterson, on England's failed pilot badger culls.  You can listen to it here, at around 40 mins in. The consistently admirable Eddie Mair...

I took part in a Twitter encounter [ #ASEChat ] between the ASE and NAEE the other night with environmental education as the focus.  Although I never quite discovered what the purposes were,  just having an encounter seemed  almost worthwhile...

Rostov-on-Don, April 1st 2014 This morning's RIA news agency bulletin carries an article about a dispute in a Crimean bar over the meaning of ESD.  Here's the gist of the story: An argument over ESD theory ended in a man being shot.  Police...

There were two events yesterday competing for my attention; sadly, I could go to neither, but I was able to follow parts of each on Twitter. One was an Ellen MacArthur Foundation conference in Bradford on Rethinking the Future [...

The 2013 Ofsted annual report on the further education and skills sector (available here)  has little to say about sustainability.  It’s a gloomy, and really rather shocking, read.  This is from the Executive Summary: 2. … there is still too...

… and they’re doing it now.  Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability implementation group is up and running; its membership and terms of reference are here Learning for Sustainability – the report of the One Planet Schools working group was published in...