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  • SHED SHARE blues ...

    One of the characteristics of the HEA's SHED SHARE mailbase is that hardly anyone uses it for discussion.  Most often it's used for self-promotion or just to announce stuff, and discussion rarely gets beyond three contributions.  I understand from those...

  • That was geography, that was

    This is how the draft national curriculum specification for geography begins: A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives....

  • Transition in Learning in Transition

    The latest South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition seminar was held on February 14th in Totnes.  The topic was Learning in Transition.  Appropriately, we met in the Totnes Transition Network meeting room. Ben Brangwyn opened the seminar with some background...

  • Oak, Furrows, and Mink

    The Oak and Furrows wildlife rescue centre is a charity based in Gloucestershire.  Its aim is to "provide care for wild animals in need so that they can be returned to the wild fit and healthy for a second chance.”...

  • The Green Learning Blog

    I've been reading the green learning blog, a new output from the education, schools and families team at the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.  For a Trustee, with a particular interest in environmental learning, this kind of communication is a great way...

  • No austerity at the QAA

    The Quality Assurance Agency [QAA] has a new resource out for consultation: Enterprise and entrepreneurship education: guidance for UK higher education providers. QAA says that this ... "has been developed by representatives drawn from, and acting on behalf of, the enterprise...

  • Gove's Paradox

    Michael Gove, England's Secretary of State for Education, has lovingly crafted his perfect (national) curriculum based on what every English boy and girl should know about the country's history, culture, achievements, values, etc, whilst re-designing the  English education system so that...

  • Seven Sins against Science

    I wrote recently about Mark Lynas's Damascene conversion to GM.  Here he is again, testing out his position against the views of an eminent US scientist, Nina Fedoroff.  Oh that we all did the equivalent of that! And here, for...

  • An accidental Starbucks

    I had a pretty standard cup of Starbucks coffee the other day; unwontedly, I should say.   I was on a train and only saw the logo when the drink was on my little table.  I drank it anyway, my liquid...

  • I know! Let's ban packed lunches in schools. What larks ...

    Alongside the (rather positive) notion that children in schools (up to 14) should have an entitlement to classes wherein they are helped to learn to cook "healthy and wholesome" (but only "savoury") meals, there is, I am told, the completely...