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Are you an academic who can't think what to say?  Or one too idle to do your own preparation?  Don't despair, Walter L has the answer(s) for you – and they're free. Walter sent an email to his many followers...

In England, no matter how secular you are of mindset, you always know when Easter's approaching because the teacher unions and professional associations hold their annual conferences to which the educational great 'n' good are invited.  Here's the line-up for the Association...

Whether this mad idea to have a second Stonehenge is still being considered is unclear (it was on the BBC website recently), but Graham Gould, of Salisbury City Centre Management, has described it as a "fantastic idea".  He is reported as saying:...

Well, with TED, and in particular Johan Rockström.  Here he is in 2010.  I was alerted to this by the Independent the other day with an article by Christopher Hooton about a paper published by Rockström in Science in January 2015. The Indy's title was stark:...

I wondered this when I was at the recent seminar on Designing & Managing Sustainable University Estates that was hosted by NCUP – the National Conference of University Professors. I came to the conclusion that a 'concatenation' might be appropriate, given how much...

EER has finally published its much awaited special issue [SI] on environmental education in the age of neo-liberalism". Arjen Wals, a contributor, says this about it in his blog: Environmental Education Research has just published a special issue on environmental education...

I'm sitting at my desk in the University of Bath.  When I actually was employed here, I spent far too much time since about 2001 worrying away about external research assessment / excellence frameworks and exercises; it passed for work....

I live in near-constant despair at the paucity of thinking around training and skills, and vocational education in the UK where no-one seems to have a vision that fits with the world as we are coming to know it, as...

I heard the other day of a school Headteacher who was still claiming to have green flag status even though the award was beyond the time limit, and had not been renewed.  His reasoning was that as his school had had...

Ofsted has announced that under its new common inspection framework, inspectors will, from September, make judgements about the personal development, behaviour and welfare of leaners. They will look at the extent to which institutions are successful at supporting pupils to gain...