May 2022

Thanks to SOS-UK for alerting me to the Manifesto on Quality Climate Change Education for All! [subtitled: Teach for the Planet] from Educational International.  EI is the "Global Union Federation that brings together organisations of teachers and other education employees from across the...

I did not to the latest Westminster Education Forum event on May 18th.  It was a tour d'horizon of "green and climate education in England – sustainability and action on climate change in the curriculum, outdoor learning, and priorities for...

A report by Doug Bourn (UCL) and Jenny Hatley (Bath Spa) on behalf of the Our Shared World coalition of organisations, was launched the other day.  The report gathered evidence of the extent to which the themes of Sustainable Development Goal...

Notes from a Small Town The elected council of my local town likes to present itself as "progressive", usually in comparison to the unitary authority in which it finds itself embedded which is both large C and small c conservative....

I see that the outcomes of the latest universities research assessment exercise [ie, the REF: research excellence framework] have been published today.  Thank goodness not to be involved in this.  It's a major plus of retirement; indeed the thought of having...

An article in Schools Week says that the DfE spent over £11,000 on "canapés and booze" to launch its new strategy on sustainability and climate change.  As I was there, I need to put the record straight. The article reports...

This is my 2250th post since this blog began in June 2009.  And in all that time I've not had the opportunity to write about Monty Python.  That is odd given how often I've mentioned ESD which is Pythonesque in...

A recent article in The Conversation said that although the 2021 Environment Act made it mandatory (after a two-year transition) for most new developments in England to achieve a biodiversity net gain, there are concerns that the policy contains loopholes...