December 2021

Thanks to the latest NAEE weekly round up for alerting me to what's occurring in Wales.  I was fleetingly  in the Principality recently but failed to spot this. The Curriculum for Wales initiative is in full swing and you can see...

Imagine a conversation somewhere east of the Vistula ... Sergey More good energy news Mr President.  Useful idiots in Scotland have persuaded the First Minister to oppose the development of Cambo – an oil and gas field.  This means we...

This post is written by Dr Paul Vare of the University of Gloucestershire.  Paul was one of those invited by the DfE to be a member of the climate education working group which met on December 9th.  These are his...

I've been reading NAEE's latest blog post from Richard Dunne leader of the Harmony Project.  It's worth a read and contains this passage: "... The climate emergency has come about from a complete lack of understanding of what we need to...

The DfE wants feedback on its draft sustainability and climate change education strategy for education and children’s services systems.  These are my initial thoughts: I ... support the statement that education is critical to fighting climate change, and the acknowledgement that...

The DfE is saying nothing about the chances of the GCSE in natural history getting approval.  The proposal  is "with ministers" I understand.  But what advice are they getting from civil servants do you suppose?  The fact that it wasn't...