The title of this posting comes from the very recent grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2012 / 13).  It comes from para 22, which says: The HE sector has made good progress in recent years...

This week's Economist carried a sad tale of a decade of scholastic stagnation in Wales following the teacher unions' (entirely selfless) success in persuading a credulous government that it was in young people's interests that national league tables of schools...

In a recent posting, I commented that the expert group's proposal to government that an aim of the revised curriculum ought to be to ... Promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally was a pertinent phrasing...

The BBC reported on saturday that the Occupy movement is looking to extend its activities to outreach; that is to the wider community including schools.  The BBC reports: The protest group says the point of its occupation is to reclaim "the space...

With my usual heavy (but ever-hopeful) heart, I have been reading some UNECE text in preparation for a meeting on the "green economy".  In the Introduction to a discussion paper on the role of education for sustainable development in shifting to...

Am I the only one out there who's getting more annoyed by the day with the hectoring moralising that increasingly now comes with emails?  I had one today that said: Please don't print things like emails unnecessarily I was sorely...

Anyone who's suffered in a too-warm, poorly-ventilated classroom lately and wondered why – given that it was a new build to a supposedly eco design, should look for some explanation to a comment in a recent edition of Building4Change published by...

I'll be surprised if DfE were to turn down the recommendations of the expert group that D&T / ICT / Citizenship should become an aspect of the Basic Curriculum in English schools as opposed to the heavily prescribed National Curriculum....

Foot note 30 (page 14) to the expert panel's report to government refers to an 1882 publication [ Page T (ed): Moffatt’s Pupil Teachers’ Course: First Year (London: Moffatt & Paige) ] with this quote: The ‘New Code’ detailed in this...

Think Global has welcomed the report of the national curriculum expert panel.  It has not, however, explicitly welcomed the recommendations.  This is perhaps unsurprising given that its core notions of global citizenship / learning are conspicuously absent from the report,...