February 2015

'Education, Nature, and Society' is the title of Steve Gough's latest book for Routledge, and he generously gave me a copy last week.  Here's a taste of the book, from the website: "Environmental issues continue to divide opinion, sometimes in extreme...

I received this on Friday: David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband have signed a joint statement about tackling climate change.  In a public agreement they have committed to working together across party lines to tackle climate change.  This is...

The Associated Press reports from Geneva that UN negotiators have produced "an early draft" of the text for the climate deal in Paris next December.  The previous text was 38 pages long; it now has 86 in order to make sure the...

In Paris, on Thursday 19, to Friday, 20 February, there will be a UNESCO Regional Ministerial Conference on Education Post-2015.  This is a "category 5 advisory committee", and is organized by UNESCO for Member States of the Eastern and Western European...

At the weekend, I heard myself say: "Well, I don't expect that the Greens will be particularly interested in environmental education."  After that, I thought I'd better find out.  Their education policy can be found here. In addition to an...

This will come as a shock to everyone, including the university, I fancy.  Bath usually loiters way down the UK's 'green' league; so, to come in the top 20 of an international league, and to beat many of the UK's usual suspects...

Inspiring news from Taiwan about waste.  If the trend shown in this graph continues, Taiwanese folk will soon be generating negative amounts of waste.  So inspiring. So how has Taiwan done it?  First, through education.  School children receive environmentally themed lessons...

Fat chance of this, you might think, when neither education nor sustainability look like being discussed at all.  My money's on the economy generally, dealing with the deficit in particular, welfare, the NHS and other parties' lack of credibility.  Anyway,...

I've been reading the Carter Review of ITT in England.  It'd dedicated stuff, this blogging. The aim of the review was to identify which "core elements of high quality ITT across phases and subject disciplines are key to equipping trainees with...

It's February, and so it's time for another letter from BIS to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), setting out the government's priorities for the HE sector for the coming year.  I've written before about the political to-ings and...