June 2019
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Ten years on
I began to blog on this site 10 years ago today on June 10th 2009 and now, some 1900 posts later, I am still at it. The first post was about the south-west learning for sustainability coalition, which collapsed under...
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Plymouth: a very modern major university
I read that the University of Plymouth is being unfairly criticised for spending a mere £375,000 on the much needed refurbishment of the vice-chancellor’s office while prudently saving £zillions cutting 150 jobs that are now surplus to requirements. Fools! Who...
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Let's be done with GCSE
When communism fell apart in the USSR there was panic in an unusual sector of the economy: the school examinations industry. What was to become of all those questions about Marxist-Leninist theory and the history of the communist party —...
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The price of steel
As I write this, no coal is being used in a UK power station to generate electricity, and it has been this way for a while now. Indeed, zero-coal records have been set, and if plans come to fruition, the...
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1979 and all that – Education in England
The Education in England (the history of our schools) website contains HMI publications including the (1979) second edition of its Curriculum 11-16 Working Papers. This deals with environmental education because this was a time when HMI took it seriously, unlike Ofsted today....