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At the weekend, I heard myself say: "Well, I don't expect that the Greens will be particularly interested in environmental education."  After that, I thought I'd better find out.  Their education policy can be found here. In addition to an...

This will come as a shock to everyone, including the university, I fancy.  Bath usually loiters way down the UK's 'green' league; so, to come in the top 20 of an international league, and to beat many of the UK's usual suspects...

Inspiring news from Taiwan about waste.  If the trend shown in this graph continues, Taiwanese folk will soon be generating negative amounts of waste.  So inspiring. So how has Taiwan done it?  First, through education.  School children receive environmentally themed lessons...

Fat chance of this, you might think, when neither education nor sustainability look like being discussed at all.  My money's on the economy generally, dealing with the deficit in particular, welfare, the NHS and other parties' lack of credibility.  Anyway,...

I've been reading the Carter Review of ITT in England.  It'd dedicated stuff, this blogging. The aim of the review was to identify which "core elements of high quality ITT across phases and subject disciplines are key to equipping trainees with...

It's February, and so it's time for another letter from BIS to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), setting out the government's priorities for the HE sector for the coming year.  I've written before about the political to-ings and...

Such a good day in London yesterday at the NUS, for its Sustainability Oversight Board.  We looked at the NUS sustainability operating plan, at various aspects of its Responsible Futures initiative which is mid-way through its pilot year, and at the forthcoming student...

When a government says its "committed to helping schools ensure that more children develop a set of character traits, attributes and behaviours that underpin success in education and work", you know there's a certain desperation in the air, or an election...

This is Steve Martin's letter in today's THE ... A glaring omission from the People & Planet University League 2015 tables is any meaningful measure of teaching quality and how the programmes that universities offer contribute to the life chances...

Although Graham Gibb's article in the THE last week is ostensibly about fees, ... "Higher fees should reflect an institution's quality, rather than status, so we should start measuring it, argues Graham Gibbs" ... it is actually an argument about how to measure...