April 2021

A whole bunch of educational organisations are taking the Glasgow meeting of COP26 seriously by either planning to be there to encourage delegates, by producing resources for schools, or holding webinars – or all three.  This follows government calls for...

For those who took Philip Larkin's gloomy text about the state of the country(side) too much to heart, fear not.  As AN Wilson noted in his poetry of place book, England, published by Eland Books, this country has been going to the dogs from at least...

Thursday April 22nd is Earth Day 2021.  50 years ago, Philip Larkin was commissioned to write a prologue to a UK government report, How Do You Want To Live?  (HMSO, 1972).  This was one of the UK's papers submitted to the landmark 1972...

I listened into the latest Wild Live webinar the other day, but came away disappointed. In case you wanted a reason not to watch it, I can reveal [Spoiler Alert!] the answer to the question posed in the title is:...

Way back in what now almost seems another life, I used to travel round Somerset and Wiltshire watching PGCE students teach.  I got into the habit of looking at class lists to note the fore-names of those being taught, and...

In The Tables Turned, Wordsworth wrote: "... One impulse from a vernal wood  /  May teach you more of man,  /  Of moral evil and of good,  /  Than all the sages can.  ..." I've just returned from such a wood which...

As I noted the other day, and also a few weeks ago, I gave a talk to a group of PGCE geography students at the start of the year.  At the end of the talk, I set out what I thought about...

As I've already noted, earlier in the year I gave a talk to a group of PGCE geography students.  I did this from home, of course, using a rather slick platform that I never quite learned the name of. Towards...

In a bold move today, the government has announced plans to nationalise all England's golf courses and open them up for housing development.  A spokesperson for the newly merged government DEpartment For Golf, Housing Innovation and Justice (DEFGHIJ), Dx Sandy...