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DfE (and Ofsted) have responded to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry Transforming Education Outside the Classroom.  Annex 2 begins: Progress since 2004: 1. Under the previous Administration, significant progress was made in bringing together organisations with an interest in promoting...

It is with immense sadness that I have to report that my scholarly work has been traduced (yet again!); though mugged might be a better word. It's easy really: you find a quote that suits your purpose, you copy it making...

I have been reading Richard D North's blog – once again – having been absent from it for an inexplicably long while.  Whilst it is wide-ranging, it seems to me to be particularly helpful on the politics of climate change....

The BBC's Points West had what was billed as a good conservation story last night, and Daphne and Belinda were in the studio to tell us all about it.  Belinda was an otter and Daphne was its "owner", or so...

I have just caught up with a recent story in the Times Education Supplement under the headline: "Climate change strategy falls victim to Tories' anti-centralising drive".  To my bemusement, this turned out to be the Sustainable Schools Initiative.   To...

I have been away – two luxurious weeks with little thought of ESD.  I come back to discover that I've missed a mini-drama.  It seems that those well-meaning folk at the 10:10 movement thought it would be a good idea...

… use Century Gothic, the thinnest font around.  10% ink savings guaranteed, it seems, though using fewer and shorter words might do the same thing.

A good conversation with a colleague yesterday about evaluation and learning, especially about plants.  Is it really enough if young people can recognise a few plants – and colour in their copybooks correctly?  Shouldn't we be seeking something more sophisticated...

It is widely reported that the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, has now abandoned the department’s sustainable schools strategy and, hence, any active government promotion of, and support for, the idea and reality of sustainable schools.  I say...

This is the title of a new publication from Ofsted.   The document is commendably brief – and I note that its focus is on sustainability / sustainable development, not ESD, which probably explains some of the lack of emphasis on learning,...