July 2016

  • Another thing for the Welsh Education Minister to blame

    Research at Bristol University in 2014 revealed the negative effect that watching international football on TV can have on GCSE performance.  When there's a summer world cup or european championships, on average students do about half a grade worse in one GCSE...

  • Brexit, EE and global education

    Environmental education had a good referendum campaign in that nothing bad or scurrilous was said about it; no one burnt effigies of the founding fathers, NAEE's head office wasn't mired in graffiti, and the historic meeting of NAEE and NAAEE...

  • Can ESD keep Scotland in the EU?

    I see that Gibraltar and Scotland are talking about how they might co-operate to stay within the EU.  As the Royal Navy and ESD are about the only things they have in common, that might be a tall order (and...