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  • The UK is No. 2 in Europe it seems – for Education!

    The UK is No. 2 in Europe for Education.  Well, so says Pearson – and they should know as they seem increasingly to be running it.  The BBC reports their latest Economist Intelligence Unit world survey and says: These rankings are based...

  • Environmental Education in Japan

    I spent a stimulating few hours earlier this week with two visiting researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies.  They came to the UK to look at policies and practices around environmental education of all things.  How refreshing. Bath was their...

  • Indicators from the UNU

    The UN University has issued a report on resilience in socio-ecological production landscape indicators (SEPLs) that were developed between Bioversity International and the United Nations University's Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). The report begins by defining the terminology of SEPLs, resilience, and the...

  • Good news for Educators in Wales – thanks to Pearson

    The news that the OECD’s PISA education league tables will include a measure on global competences in 2018 must come as a relief to those responsible for school education across Wales, as – of course – it will mean that...

  • Insights from building in the neo-Neolithic

    As I have noted before (see this), English Heritage has been building some new neolithic houses at its Stonehenge visitor centre.  This has involved volunteers from a range of backgrounds, possessing (and learning) an equally diverse range of skills.  Clearly,...

  • Two policy-related seminars on ESD

    At the initiative of the UK National Commission for UNESCO, two ESD policy-related seminars will be organized on 3 July and 27 August 2014.  Their outcomes will serve to support the assessments and perspectives that the UK will present at...

  • To E SD or to ESD? This seems to be a question

    Should ESD be about sustainable development at all? An odd question to ask, perhaps, and many will think the response a no-brainer, as we watch coasts crumble and sea levels rise, the skies grow darker yet, and poverty and injustice...

  • Watch your language

    The Guardian reports that university researchers recommend saying global warming rather than climate change if you want to influence Americans.  The two terms are often used interchangeably but they generate very different responses, according to researchers from Yale and George Mason Universities....

  • Remembering Peter Martin discomforting an audience

    In an FT [1] review of Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, by David Harvey, and Utopia or Bust: a guide to the present crisis, by Benjamin Kunkel, Martin Sandbu raises a point about the viewing of difficult and...

  • What's 'fair' about Fairtrade? Discuss

    The Guardian reports that a study sponsored by the UK government has cast doubt on the effectiveness of Fairtrade in East Africa.  Generally, the study found, wages were higher on farms that were larger, commercial and not Fairtrade-certified.  Even comparing...