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While I was reading David Dixon's book: Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time, I was surprised to come across a reference to the text by Hammersley, Jones and Perry: The Teacher's Handbook to Environmental Studies (Blandfold Press,...

I was very puzzled the other day to hear that UNESCO had elevated the humble French Stick – aka le baguette – to exalted cultural heritage status.  Why I wondered when, for example, most sticks you routinely come across, particularly...

I made a brief input the other to a webinar where I addressed this question: What are the potential conflicts between, say, the agenda of an NGO and the educational responsibilities of a school? Here's what I said: The Law...

Late last year, the DfE published Teaching a broad and balanced curriculum for education recovery.  Its purpose was to offer suggestions to help schools decide how to prioritise elements within their curriculum for education recovery from the pandemic's depredations.  It...

The COP closing plenary was 5 hours 10 minutes long on YouTube.  It must have seemed much longer in real time. It was sponsored by Coca Cola.  Here's what Le Monde had to say about the inappropriateness of this. If...

Our World in Data has a section on historic carbon emissions which will be useful to any school wanting to explore the idea that countries might pay penance for having emitted a lot of carbon dioxide over time. The UK's...

Venture Capitalist, Vinod Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, wrote the following in an Economist feature: "There are 12 major areas to focus on in the coming decades: electricity, EVs, aviation, shipping, cement, steel, animal husbandry in agriculture,...

A recent mailing from the FED wondered whether skills are beginning to take centre stage in the DfE's thinking.  As evidence of this, the writer cites the fact that a long-time supporter of a long-term plan for education, the Rt Hon Robert...

The Foundation for Education Development – the FED – has expressed its approval of "long-term thinking" being back in government when it comes to education.  A recent comment is shown here: The FED has the prime aim of promoting the urgent need for...

Although no one voted for it, and there have been no street-campaigns demanding it, education in England has been systematically defunded in a comparative sense over the last 20 years under all shades of government. Twenty years ago, Britain devoted...