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I wrote the other day about the witness statement I've given to a session on the SDGs at Atlantic College later this month, and this prompted a reasoned response from Morgan Phillips.  Rather than leave this buried as a footnote,...

Green Stories is a writing competition about what a sustainable society might be like.  Further details are here, and I was immediately tempted to nominate John Huckle's Bedford 2045 which I mentioned the other day.  Surely there are no better examples around, I thought, but then...

What do you make of this: "Children entering school in 2018 will need to abandon the notion that resources are limitless and are there to be exploited; they will need to value common prosperity, sustainability and well-being. They will need to...

Thanks to Jamie Agombar for pointing me to an HEFCE blog about generic critical thinking and communicating skills.  Although mainly about HE and employment, the post seems to have wider resonance, and these sort of skills are at the heart...

Mrs M had her day in the highest German federal administrative court last week over the great emission scandal.  Like Macavity, she wasn't there in person, of course, but her policies were – and they lost. The result is that German...

I'll be off to Atlantic College in a couple of weeks to take part in a witness session in relation to education and the SDGs.  I've tried to be provocative in my prepared input.  See what you think: In 2015,...

At the launch of The World We'll Leave Behind last week, Paul asked those attending what sort of topics would have been included in such a book written in the 1780s which were just as 'interesting times' as ours are...

I'm told that £160,000 has come EAUC's way c/o HEFCE.  The HE funding council, in its death throes, has handed over its loose change to EAUC to do more of the same – and no doubt to be just as...

Slightly ahead of schedule, the Vare & Scott book, The World We'll Leave Behind has published.  We are both pleased with it, whatever others might come to think.  You'll find details here along with a Routledge conversation about it –...

A long while back (somewhen in the 1980s I think), Jordanhill Teacher Training College* in Glasgow did an evaluation of some competency-related programme or other (the details of which escape me).  The providers of the programme identified what they claimed...