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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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If you had £93.50 to spare ...
... would you spend it on WL (F)'s new book? Me neither, even though it has been digitally water-marked. The book, according to the normally reliable SDRN, is "... published as part of the award-winning ‘Climate Change Management Series’, led by...
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No time for PISA
There was a headline in the Guardian recently which ran: Global school tests under attack as OECD accused of killing 'joy of learning' It began: Leading academics have accused the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) of acting as...
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Selibra cineris coacta cani – the last indignity of death
I'm no great fan of Druids, particularly the Wiltshire set who always seem to be claiming far too much for themselves in terms of their presence in, and influence on, antiquity, and even pre-history. Time spent in the museum in...
