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As you know, I have decided to read all the main parties' education manifestos.  The second I have come across was from the Conservatives.  The headlines say that they'll: ensure a good primary school place for your child, with zero tolerance for...

I wrote, back in February, about the UN's sustainable development goals [SDG], particularly about Goal 4, the one relating to education, learning, ESD / etc / etc.  This has 10 targets associated with it. Altogether, there are now 17 goals, and...

The Labour manifesto sets out plans to guarantee all young people in schools face-to-face careers advice  and support for the transition from school to work. It seems that this will cost £50m per year.  This is not new money; nor will it come...

In a fit of enthusiasm, I decided to read all the main parties' education manifestos.  Someone has to do it.  The first to cross my desktop (sort of) was Labour's.  Alerted to its launch on Thursday, I dashed to the...

It's been another good week for the University of Bath as it rises meteorically from 2nd place to 1st in the Times Higher Education student experience survey (2015).  Bath is rated highly by students in all 21 aspects covered by...

Given the curriculum and accountability chaos unleashed by the government’s education policies, it is timely of Routledge to make Michael Young’s editorial from a special issue of the Curriculum Journal – "What is a curriculum and what can it do?" freely available....

It's an old joke, and the answer is 'from a safe distance'.  However, if you're a charity trustee or a company non-exec director trying to exercise your scrutiny function, you often have little option but to do just that.  You are...

 A new DfID Topic Guide is available that "sets out the existing knowledge around the links between education, climate and environment [and] highlights the two-way relationship between these key areas."  These include: The risks and opportunities posed by environmental and climatic...

I've been reading Monitoring Education for Global Citizenship: A Contribution to Debate, but it's no publication for old(er) men.  It's near-unreadable on screen because of the PDF formatting, and you need a magnifying glass to read the paper copy.  It's (un)clearly meant for the...

Wiltshire Council is a unitary authority that covers the whole of Wiltshire where I live; this now excludes Swindon thereby relieving all of us of a dreadful responsibility.  WC is run by the Conservatives who are more or less successfully...