News and Updates

"G7 education ministers reaffirm commitment to ESD" was the headline in a recent UNESCO briefing (the ESD ZOOM Newsletter).  Clicking on the 'more info' link, however, takes you to this headline: "G7 Education Ministers reaffirm commitment to quality education" ... which...

Before Priti Patel became the UK's new secretary of state for international development in the latest government changes, she had already set her new self a challenge.  Three years ago she said her department of state should be abolished.  But now...

EAUC asks, rather naively it seems to me, whether universities are doing any work around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs], and it is working with a range of organisations, including the Regional Centres for Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development (RCEs),...

As no one seems to know what outdoor learning is for, the Institute for Outdoor Learning [IOL] is to be congratulated for confronting the issue head on at its 2016 conference on 14-15th October. Valerie Hannon will be the keynote speaker....

Not that Justine Greening is the new education secretary of state, will she tolerate DfID's running its own rival schools programme, or will she want to draw it into the hugely-expanded DfE house, and use this to facilitate much-needed curriculum reform?...

I expect that the sparking water is flowing freely today at Think Global, ~TIDE global learning, the DECs, and everywhere west of Suez wherever global learning, development education, etc, is promoted.  Why?  Because Justine Greening is the new Education Secretary...

I see that the Department for Education is now to get (back) FE, HE, skills and apprenticeships within its purview.   They have been within BIS (Business, innovation and skills) for so long that I cannot recall, off hand, when they...

The Society for the Environment is organising an Any Questions forum about People, Politics, Planet on July 21st. The blurb says: Britain in a changing Europe.  Join us for the first post-referendum public debate on the future of environmental policy in the...

Another day; another "University Alliance for Sustainability".  I received this blurb the other day: Freie Universität Berlin, together with its four strategic partners, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of British Columbia, St. Petersburg State University, and Peking University, will...

As I noted the other day, EAUC, NUS, UCU, CDN & AoC have launched their survey on perceptions of sustainability in the sector. You can access it here and it should be complete by 31st July What I didn't say is that there's...