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Very forgettable samosas
I had hoped that no matter how dull the seminar in Birmingham last Friday might turn out to be, the samosas would be brilliant. Not so; the samosas were dull: flaccid, pasty confections; happily, the rest of the lunch on...
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Children, their World, their Education
I'm in Birmingham at the "Children, their World, their Education" seminar organised by Tide~ global learning, the Cambridge Primary Review Trust, and Birmingham City Council. The blurb for the event says: Children and young people are growing up into an...
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Don't they know it's time to revive the media profile of ageing rockers
I'm not going to buy Band Aid 30. Neither, it seems, is Fuse ODG who has been put off by the patronising view of Africa that the whole idea represents. Indeed! Not that this is new. The original Band Aid had...
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Greenpeace in bed with climate sceptics – how did it come to this?
When your guiding principle is that your enemy's enemy will have to be your friend, you run all sorts of risks. You've only got to examine American Cold War policy about supporting dictatorships and terrorists to see that, not to mention the...
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Aichi-Nagoya 10 – A summary of UK press coverage
Here it is:
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Aichi-Nagoya 9 – Finally: a Testament of Youth
My last word on the ESDFest. Sadly, this has not been written by Vera Brittain. It is a Youth Statement that was adopted at the UNESCO ESD Youth Conference in Okayama, Japan, on 7 November, to provide "a vision, commitment, and recommendations from...
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Aichi-Nagoya 8 – Daily Mail update
As promised, I've been following the UNESCO ESDFest on the Daily Mail – well, MailOnline. Here, after a quite harrowing search, are the top headings for 'ESD' so far: The obstacle to treating China's contaminated soil is finding someone to pay...
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Aichi-Nagoya 7 – Mind that GAP
UNESCO's Global Action Programme [ GAP ] replaces the DESD on the 1st January 2015 and is intended as "a concrete, tangible contribution to the post-2015 agenda." Its objectives are to ... reorient education and learning so that everyone has...
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Aichi-Nagoya 6 – The Future we've all been waiting for
Shaping the Future We We Want, the UN DESD Final Report is here. The report says: "A solid foundation has been laid for ESD at the end of the DESD, achieved by raising awareness, influencing policies and generating significant numbers of...
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Aichi-Nagoya 5 – UNESCO promotes environmental education
If you read the official UNESCO account of the opening of the ESDFest in Aichi-Nagoya, you cannot but help be struck by how much the environment features. Here's the Crown Prince of Japan: "On our earth today, along with economic growth...