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Robbing Peter to (sort of) pay Peter – it's called 'upstreaming'
The Labour manifesto sets out plans to guarantee all young people in schools face-to-face careers advice and support for the transition from school to work. It seems that this will cost £50m per year. This is not new money; nor will it come...
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Education Manifestos – Take 1; Labour
In a fit of enthusiasm, I decided to read all the main parties' education manifestos. Someone has to do it. The first to cross my desktop (sort of) was Labour's. Alerted to its launch on Thursday, I dashed to the...
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It's no 'good for ESD' in UK universities
It's been another good week for the University of Bath as it rises meteorically from 2nd place to 1st in the Times Higher Education student experience survey (2015). Bath is rated highly by students in all 21 aspects covered by...
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Land Iguanas to be reintroduced to Surrey
Guildford; April 1st 2015 There is controversy across the home counties today as campaigners begin a fight to reintroduce land iguanas into Surrey. Dr Rita-Anne McMurrey-Jones, of the Bring Land Iguanas Back to Britain (BLIBB) campaign, said that when Surrey was just...
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So, what is a curriculum and what can it do?
Given the curriculum and accountability chaos unleashed by the government’s education policies, it is timely of Routledge to make Michael Young’s editorial from a special issue of the Curriculum Journal – "What is a curriculum and what can it do?" freely available....
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How best to smell a rat
It's an old joke, and the answer is 'from a safe distance'. However, if you're a charity trustee or a company non-exec director trying to exercise your scrutiny function, you often have little option but to do just that. You are...
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Education, Climate and Environment – a new guide
A new DfID Topic Guide is available that "sets out the existing knowledge around the links between education, climate and environment [and] highlights the two-way relationship between these key areas." These include: The risks and opportunities posed by environmental and climatic...
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No publication for old(er) men
I've been reading Monitoring Education for Global Citizenship: A Contribution to Debate, but it's no publication for old(er) men. It's near-unreadable on screen because of the PDF formatting, and you need a magnifying glass to read the paper copy. It's (un)clearly meant for the...
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Lessons in waste management from Wiltshire Council
Wiltshire Council is a unitary authority that covers the whole of Wiltshire where I live; this now excludes Swindon thereby relieving all of us of a dreadful responsibility. WC is run by the Conservatives who are more or less successfully...
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Walter Leal's very special day
Are you an academic who can't think what to say? Or one too idle to do your own preparation? Don't despair, Walter L has the answer(s) for you – and they're free. Walter sent an email to his many followers...
