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You can't have missed the publicity around the launch of the FED's National Education Consultation Report 2023 - Towards a long-term plan for education at the House of Lords last week.  As the FED itself modestly noted: "What a significant week...

I see that the Government has launched a £25m Species Survival Fund to boost restoration of natural habitats.  It says that this will help to drive action to reduce habitat loss and safeguard the UK’s fragile ecosystems and create nature-rich landscapes.  This comes c/o the Heritage...

Following my posts about the inadequacy of the Royal Meteorological Society's definition of climate literacy, I received the following comment: "My big problem with all this is that climate education is being deliberately narrowed, and climate change is being framed...

I sometimes find myself thinking what I might have become had I not spotted that job at the University of Bath back in 1977.  I was teaching at the time and so becoming a headteacher might have been a possibility...

I've written a couple of posts recently on climate literacy.   I'm writing again just to record an unease. Climate Literacy crops up a lot these days, in part at least because of the need to think about climate education;...

I see that the auto-crats employed by the Climate Change Committee have woken up to the fact that hybrid cars don't do many miles on their electric motors – that's because their batteries are so small.  These cars are really...

This is an email that was recently sent to a range of organisations including: UKSSN; NEU's Climate Change Network; IoE's Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education; Education Climate Coalition; The Harmony Project; Ministry of Eco Education; Global Action Plan; SOS-UK;...

I'm not aware of any data on the diversity of school eco-clubs / groups / etc.  Obviously this will vary somewhat from region to region and from school to school, but my educated guess of a national picture, assuming that...

I wrote the other day about the lack of a definition by the RMetS of 'climate literacy'.  I was wrong, it seems (thanks to all those with better memories than me for pointing it out).  RMetS said what it means...

If you've seen NAEE's most recent weekly news round up, you'll have read about a synthesis report published by the Royal Meteorological Society [RMetS]. It  confirms what we all knew: that there are many opportunities for climate change education within the...