New Publications

I thought that I'd written my last word (for all time) on Natural Connections, the project, but I'd missed the interview that the head of the project team gave to the BBC about the final report.  It's here – and...

Finally, it's the end of Natural Connections.  Huzzah!  The conclusions of the project's final report are that: 1. The project provides strong evidence that a distributed model of independent brokerage can unlock latent demand and support schools to overcome local barriers...

A new series of UNESCO reports is promised: the GEMs [Global Education Monitoring] reports.  These will monitor "the state of education in the new framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)".  They replace the Global Monitoring [GM] reports (GMR). The first...

Turbulent Times: Skills for a Global World is a new report from OCR and Think Global.  You can find it on TG's website.  Their blurb says: "Focusing on the views and understandings of employers, who can play a crucial role in...

Towards a Sustainable University is the title of Anthony Cortese's review of Designing the New American University by Michael Crow and William Dabars (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015).  You can read it here in Great Transition. As you would expect, this is a thoughtful...

The final report of Scotland's LfS Group, Vision 2030+, has been released.  It is here. The report "establishes a convergence between LfS and the Sustainable Development Goals as a direction for further policy development to 2030 (the 15-year period of the SDGs)"....

This is the address of one of the entrances to Paddington station in London using What3Words, a geolocation system that is accurate to within 9 square metres, anywhere on earth.  Given the precision that's available through W3W, the station entrance has...

I made a contribution to NAEE's blog the other day exploring whether we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature’s migrants if we are to combat climate change.  This was a column I'd written a while back for the...

The current migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, and farther afield because of war and other social turmoil has already been linked to climate change – not only because this has been seen as a contributor to...

Vote Remain for Nature is a short, but irritating, film urging us all to vote to stay in the EU for the sake of nature.  The blurb says: "Europe's protections keep Britain's wildlife, countryside and nature safe.  Wildlife doesn't queue up at the...