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What an odd title, you might think, given that NZ was the first country to have universal suffrage.  However, you might like to read the admirable and utterly irrefragable Bronwen Hayward on the latest efforts in Christchurch to rebuild a...

It is hard to know which is the more disturbing – a politician ordering an exam board to raise candidates' GCSE grades, or the board meekly saying "Yes sir, of course, sir.  Very happy to oblige."  The latter, probably.  Both...

On my more bleak days, I think this is government policy, but all I have to do is to read one of Mr Gove's speeches to be myself again. Actually, it's the title [ No Child Left Thinking – democracy at...

Limited opportunities at Oxford ... Head of Environmental Sustainability                  Estates Directorate, The Malthouse, Oxford Grade 10: £49,689 - £57,581 p.a. Could you lead the University of Oxford’s mission to carry out its...

I surmised earlier that Tbilisi+35 promised to be rather a wasted effort. You'll recall, of course, that one of the aims was to ... “leverage on the educational agenda that will be captured in the outcome document of the recently-concluded RIO+20...

I spent an enjoyable day in the fresh air at the splendid Weald & Downland museum in Hampshire in August.  If you've not been, and are passing (no unnecessary carbon please!), you might find its collection of rescued buildings from...

The outcome document from Rio+20, The Future we Want, has something to say about education.  Something, but not very much, despite UNESCO apologists' (and the overly-optimistic) talking it up. This is the education-specific text for which we might have some...

A new publication from the IPPR: Oceans of innovation: The Atlantic, the Pacific, global leadership and the future of education: economy, education, political ideas, world politics. training and skills. The blurb begins ... The economic and educational achievements of the Pacific...

The research on the effectiveness of sustainable schools that colleagues and I carried out at the University of Bath some while back has been reinstated on the DfE website.  You can find it here.  This was originally removed when all that...

I have come across Play England rather late in life.  Its purpose is to ensure that children and young people in England have the space and opportunity to play freely as part of their daily lives, at school and other services,...