New Publications

After tireless investigation, Department for Education apparatchiks have at last found an educational league table that those bothersome Finns come bottom in.   It's in a recent report from Unicef: Child well-being in rich countries: a comparative overview; Innocenti Report Card...

Developing the sustainable school: thinking the issues through is the title of a paper that I have just been published by The Curriculum Journal.    You can access it here. This is the Abstract: This paper reports on a study...

I've been watching the new promotional video from the NUS green (ethics & environment) team.  It's here,  and was well received at  the recent EUAC conference.  It's RSA-Animate in style, but more breathless (and Welsh). Now, like Hefce (but for...

As I wrote last month, I have been involved in some work for the UK UNESCO National Commission, part of a good team [Note 1], ably led by Steve Martin, writing an ESD Brief [Note 2] covering the UK which ......

As I noted yesterday, I signed a letter that the Sunday Times published on 14th April.  In association with this, I was contacted by the Sunday Times last Thursday evening.  They said: "We also want to publish a news story...

This is the text of a letter that the Sunday Times published today, April 14th.  It was timed to fit with the approaching deadline for commenting on the government's national curriculum revision proposals.  Specifically, this addressed unnecessary and quite inexplicable changes...

There has been much fuss recently about the 'removal' of climate change from the English national curriculum, and the evils that will result.  I have already touched on this in respect of geography teaching, and feel likely  [Add heavy heart...

I'm pleased to report that those selfless UNECE folk have been travelling round Europe again, staying in nice hotels, in order to instruct the rest of us in how to live sustainably. But we should not carp!  Indeed, our collective...

A spokesperson for the Department of Education, Dr Ratko O'Malley, confirmed today that the DfE is to buy 800,000 copies of Gary Thomas's new OUP publication, Education: A Very Short Introduction, which was published last week.  These will be distributed...

... they did it yesterday" is an observation that is sometimes remarked of the Scots – quite often, it has to be said, by the Scots.  However, when it comes to ESD – or Learning for Sustainability – as they...