Initially, I wondered what to make of the expert group's proposal to government that an aim of the curriculum ought to be to ... Promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally My first reaction...

In the last post, I referred to (and welcomed) the Expert Panel's recommendations to government about revisions to the English national curriculum.  This posting builds on that by setting out those aspects of the review document that relate to sustainability....

Just before Christmas, the DfE published a report by the expert panel set up to guide the English national curriculum review process.  This is now available on the DfE website.  The DfE says: This report summarises the Expert Panel’s thinking...

I'm pleased to have been appointed to the Higher Education Academy's new ESD advisory group which has just been reconstituted to make it more representative of the sector and of interests, with a sharpening of focus.  That is good evidence...

I should declare an interest at the outset: I am a big fan of the Large Hadron Collider, and in complete awe of its purpose. There is a story (true, I'm told) of an American physicist appearing before an Senate...

The Telegraph reports today that carbon emissions look set to delay (and probably avert) the next ice age which is just the sort of new year message we all need.  A considerable bonus will be that it will also mean...

Arjen Wals' blog today has an existential cry about appropriate university courses if you're of a sustainability mindset: Today I received an interesting new years message from Rolf Jucker from the CoDes project: Dear All I hope you have had a...

I have been re-reading (after quite a gap) a still rather stimulating HMI curriculum working paper on environmental education from June 1979 – about which much more later.  The following text is by way of preface to the document: This publication...

I'm grateful to the NUS's Jamie Agombar for pointing me towards recent Defra-sponsored research on behaviour.  One of these studies focused on moments of change. This research project explored whether ‘moments of change’ – times in a person’s life where existing...

The city of Bath, it seems, has a new phenomenon: knitting snoods for chickens. I am told that, such is the concern for those birds newly-freed from the thankfully now-outlawed battery cages, and adopted by caring folk with back yards,...