Bill Scott
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Wild LIVE: Is education failing our young people and the natural world?
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:...
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Luna, Aria, Albie, Carol and Nigel
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...
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Wordsworth and the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
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...
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Learning about the climate: young people and schools
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...
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Learning about the climate: the curriculum
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...
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Government solves the housing crisis
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...
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Dear Michelle, ...
A while back, Teach the Future launched a campaign to have members of the education professions write to their MPs calling for better climate education in schools. I duly obliged. Below is what I sent based on a template provided...
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Philip Neal
This is a slightly edited version of the obituary which was published in Vol 98 of the NAEE journal, Environmental Education in 2011 (pages 31/32). It is included here with the kind permission of the three original contributors: Norman Farmer,...
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Rhododendrons must fall
News comes that Kew Gardens is to decolonise its collection. Kew recently published a manifesto for change, saying that it was going to “ensure the diverse countries and cultures that partner with RBG Kew and contribute to our collections are accurately...
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Supporting a Natural History GCSE?
I've been asked, given what I've been writing lately (see this and this), whether I'm still a supporter of the promised natural history GCSE from OCR. Well, given that I'm still a member of the advisory board, the answer is...