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If you go to the UNESCO End-of Decade conference website, you find this information in a page bottom strap line: Our priorities Africa Gender Equality Education for All Sustainable Development Ethics Intercultural Dialogue Knowledge Societies Popular topics World Heritage Water...

As I noted at the time, I did badly on the Observer science quiz last year, and complained (to myself at least) that the questions seemed more about popular culture than science.  No such excuses this year where, again, I...

I am pleased to ssee that Walter Leal is settled back working in the country, and as busy as ever.  Although, I know that WL has his critics, his UK re-entry is surely very welcome, and especially at a time...

I wasn't able to be at the launch of the Manifesto we all Want the other day.  Had I been there, however, I hope that I might have managed to write the sort of perceptive review that the University of...

Are you tired of life?  Are you jaded by its materialist urgings?   Do you feel yourself helpless in a neo-liberal embrace?  Have you lost sight of what it is to be inter-human?  Do you no longer know who you...

I am slowly catching up with the changes to English Heritage [ EH ].  These are visionary or desparate, according to taste.  EH is to be broken up:  one part, still to be called English Heritage, will become a charity...

About a year ago, I wrote this: We are encouraged to take both the Copernicus Alliance, and EAUC’s LiFE (Learning in Future Environments), seriously, as major initiatives supporting sustainability and learning, and I have no doubt that, for those involved, there...

This began well with an extended cabaret on the lawn by a green woodpecker and then the arrival of the first fieldfares.  Fortunately, we have enough apples and ants to cater for all. Poor PISA scores were heralded by Sunday newspaper...

You could tell the PISA scores were going to be bad when, just before publication, Mr Gove blamed the last government's policies.  In the event, PISA revealed the UK to be around the OECD average for maths and reading, and a...

First, warm congratulations to Simon Kemp who won the Times Higher Award last week for 'most innovative teacher of the year'.  The judges said: Simon Kemp’s imaginative approach to teaching, particularly by putting students in high-pressure, real-life business situations, hugely...