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Eco-Schools Scotland reports that 98% of local authority schools have now joined the movement. Given that the Holyrood administration sees Eco-schools as a vector for its policies, and has told schools to sign up, this is no surprise, perhaps.  Or...

As is drearily predictable, the BBC's much trailed new Earth science programme – Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey – turned out to be another excuse for collecting air miles and for presenters to have fun.  For once, however, Brian Cox missed...

As I have noted already, the expert panel set up by government to think about revisions to the national curriculum, has proposed that one of the high-level curriculum aim statement is this … The school curriculum should develop pupils’ knowledge, understanding,...

Keep Scotland Beautiful sports a number of blogs which were established back in September 2011 in an obvious fit of enthusiasm for new-ish media.  One of these is that rare species, the environmental education blog.   This is written by...

It's wonderful what you can find on iTunes these days, but to come across a whole lot of stuff on ESD some may think rather unexpected.  Not so, however, just click here to find 81 (at today's count) outputs from Education...

KPMG have published a report on the sustainability megaforces will “impact each and every business over the next 20 years" – and the rest of us, no doubt.  Ten are cited: Climate Change Energy & fuel Material resource scarcity Water...

The University of Keele has appointed Jonathon Porritt as its new Chancellor – brave, or what? I ask this as JP remains an activist to his core as completely befits someone who a founder of Forum for the Future, and...

In the spirit of balance and fair-mindedness, I have been struggling for a week or so to find anyone with a good word to say about the lately departed Chris Huhne, but the web is full of direct and/or oblique...

There's ... plagiarism when you copy chunks of somebody else's already-published text and 'forget' to cite it accurately (or at all) plagiarism of a more subtle sort when you use part of something you've already published yourself elsewhere without making...

As I noted the other day, a request came from UNESCO to capture key developments and responses to ESD ahead of a meeting in Bonn later this month to discuss the "adoption of the UN Decade" and "vision building for...