News and Updates

SEEd would like us to complete a survey about ESD in the UK whether we've heard about it or not.  In the latter case, don't panic, SEEd says.  Phew! All this is being carried out by a student from the University of Leeds...

The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC), National Union of Students (NUS), University and College Union (UCU), the College Development Network (CDN), the Association of Colleges (AoC) and who knows what, have joined together and launched another survey on...

The Economist has a lively graphic showing the relationship between country GDP per person and the 'social progress index'. It's comments begin: "It has long been said that economic output is too narrow a gauge by which to measure the progress...

Research at Bristol University in 2014 revealed the negative effect that watching international football on TV can have on GCSE performance.  When there's a summer world cup or european championships, on average students do about half a grade worse in one GCSE...

Environmental education had a good referendum campaign in that nothing bad or scurrilous was said about it; no one burnt effigies of the founding fathers, NAEE's head office wasn't mired in graffiti, and the historic meeting of NAEE and NAAEE...

I see that Gibraltar and Scotland are talking about how they might co-operate to stay within the EU.  As the Royal Navy and ESD are about the only things they have in common, that might be a tall order (and...

Early on last Thursday morning, RSPB Chief Executive, Mike Clarke, commented on the result of the EU referendum.  His remarks included what RSPB members might have expected, and wanted, to read: "As the new constitutional settlement is negotiated over the coming months (and years?),...

There is much angst (an inappropriate word, surely) among those who speak for wildlife, and the biosphere more generally in the UK, following the referendum, but there is also a growing sense of realism that there's a job to be...

There is something of an argument for giving wildlife the vote, given how much humans depend on it (well, the biosphere in general) for our continuing well-being and survival.  Putting this into operation is the difficult thing.  One badger, one vote,...

As I sit here on Saturday morning mulling over the popular vote last Thursday to quit the EU, there are already stories of wildlife flexing their muscles and flapping their wings in preparation to leave a country so out of touch...