Bill Scott
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Signing Off
This will be the last post on my University of Bath blog. I've been posting since June 10th 2009 but, 15 years and 2499 posts later, I really have to close it down if I'm to realise my 2010 retirement...
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Technocratic Governance and Democracy
Extracts from three pre-election readings: I'm reading Rory Stewart's warts 'n' all book about his time as an MP for Penrith and the Border, the constituency I was born and grew up in. He writes about the difficulty of being...
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The Education System and Social Norms and Values
In the most recent SEEd Newsletter (essential reading), Ann Finlayson writes: "I recently came across an amazing diagram on LinkedIn (Katherine Hayhoe, Climate Scientist, What can we do about climate change?) which was a version of a theory of change and...
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UK Supreme Court fails its chemistry test
Last week, the UK Supreme Court, in a majority 3 to 2 verdict, upheld a claim by a former Surrey resident, Sarah Finch, on behalf of the Weald Action Group (and supported by Friends of the Earth) that the local...
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Renewable Subsidies
I have been trying for a while to shed some light on the opaque mess that is UK electricity pricing. What follows comes from Eigen Values. It is not comfortable reading. In the UK, renewables are subsidised by three different...
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Listening to Bridget
The Labour party manifesto hit the streets yesterday. NAEE has the education-focused details and it's fair to say that it's not Earth-shattering. I then heard Bridget Phillipson on the BBC PM Programme where Evan Davis asked her a number of...
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Manifestly unimportant
I did not browse the Conservative election manifesto with a sense of expectation, but I was curious about whether they would mention what they have done in relation to climate / sustainability / environmental / etc education. I browsed in...
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National Environmental Service Anyone?
Between 1949, when the National Service Act came into force, and 1963, when the last National Serviceman was demobbed, more than 2 million men (only men) were conscripted into the British Army, Royal Navy or Royal Air Force to do...
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Bridget's new Model Curriculum
I hear that Bridget Phillipson has plans for England's schools that go beyond trying to impose VAT on independent school fees and creating a significant exodus of students into the maintained sector. The plan, it seems, is to make free...
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Celebrating a Grade D
A nice bloke came from OVO the other day to survey the house for an Energy Performance Certificate [EPC]. As an event, it was as exciting as the Eurosong contest, and had a similar result. We wondered as we prepared...