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I was pleased to get a mention in NAEE's end-0f-year message of appreciation of effort and achievement, and hope for 2018 and beyond.  This came from Judy Braus, the NAAEE Executive Director.  You will find it here, and it's certainly worth...

This, as you probably know, is not Mr Gove's latest plan to square the post-Brexit farming–environment circle.  Rather, it's the name of France's energy / environment ministry which is now located in an 18th century mansion close to the Elysée...

I see that the OECD Directorate of Education and Skills has launched its new PISA Global Competence Framework.  This is to be the basis for the 2018 PISA assessment. OECD (that should really now be OECDGC) says: Learning to participate...

The Office for Students [OfS] opened for business on New Year's Day, and so let me offer a belated and partial (in every sense) welcome.  It promises to be highly contentious; indeed it is so already – see this stout defence of...

The Higher Education Academy (HEA) has agreed to merge with the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE).  This follows the recommendations of the Bell review that there be one agency for learning and teaching, equality...

So what does the UK Green Alliance have to say about education the young and about the sustainable development goals. The Alliance had a lot to say about the goals in 2013.  See this. There is also this joint paper, written with Christian...

I ended yesterday's post like this: "It is no small wonder that those interested in social justice find it easier to bend the ear of those with money and clout." The "this" in question was the vast array of environmental NGOs...

I wrote yesterday about the usefulness of NGOs interested in global learning / social justice talking with NGOs that are interested in (or which should be interested in) education related to the goals that have a natural capital grounding.  The NGOs I...

Inevitably, given the stimulus of the St George's House event, I have been thinking some more about education and the SDGs, and in particular about the role of schools and NGOs in relation to the goals.   What follows here is...

In the end, and disappointingly, I couldn't get to the NUS celebration of its Green Impact programme at the Commons late last month.  It was an enthusiastic, sell-out crowd.  NUS has helpfully written up the event (and the background to...