April 2015
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More Realistic Development Goals
I wrote, back in February, about the UN's sustainable development goals [SDG], particularly about Goal 4, the one relating to education, learning, ESD / etc / etc. This has 10 targets associated with it. Altogether, there are now 17 goals, and...
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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...