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The taxpayer, generous to a fault, has just wished £4.3m on the non-departmental public body the School Food Trust [SFT] for its work in 2011/12.  The detailed remit letter from Mr Gove is worth a read, especially if you were...

As I noted in the last post, during my couple of days on the Isle of Wight last week, there was some discussion of ARUP's 10 Winning strategies for the ecological age.  These were written to stimulate a consideration of...

Another stimulating couple of days with the Ellen MacArthur team on the Isle of Wight working with a richly diverse group of people from across interests, disciplines and sectors, all of whom are working with the Foundation on the idea...

This is the last of 3 postings about the relationship between the school science curriculum and sustainability.  The story begins here. As I have argued, this linkage between science knowledge, understanding and sustainability does not need to be forced as...

This is the second of 3 postings about the relationship between the school science curriculum and sustainability.  The story begins here. A rationale for why the study of science needs to be a core aspect of young people’s experience at...

This is the first of 3 postings today about sustainability and the science curriculum.  They are designed to be read in sequence.  Any literature cited will be set out at the end of post 3. It seems very evident that...

In the hugely unlikely event that I ever become a government minister, I'm sure I'd find myself impressed if hundreds or thousands of people had bothered to send me an email saying I should do / not do / start...

In an interview with the Guardian, Tim Oates (Chair of the national curriculum review expert panel and director of assessment research and development, Cambridge Assessment) has called for the national curriculum "to get back to the science in science.  ......

The Guardian carried a welcome story at the weekend about an alternative [or, in the first instance, a complement] to university degree classification through the higher education achievement report (HEAR).   The report begins: Every university in the country will...

Comments posted on the blog have suggested to me that I may not fully understand the methodology behind People & Planet's league tables, and that I should look at them more closely.    This sounded all too likely, I have...