News and Updates

I wrote, back in February, about the UN's sustainable development goals [SDG], particularly about Goal 4, the one relating to education, learning, ESD / etc / etc.  This has 10 targets associated with it. Altogether, there are now 17 goals, and...

The Labour manifesto sets out plans to guarantee all young people in schools face-to-face careers advice  and support for the transition from school to work. It seems that this will cost £50m per year.  This is not new money; nor will it come...

In a fit of enthusiasm, I decided to read all the main parties' education manifestos.  Someone has to do it.  The first to cross my desktop (sort of) was Labour's.  Alerted to its launch on Thursday, I dashed to the...

It's been another good week for the University of Bath as it rises meteorically from 2nd place to 1st in the Times Higher Education student experience survey (2015).  Bath is rated highly by students in all 21 aspects covered by...

Guildford; April 1st 2015 There is controversy across the home counties today as campaigners begin a fight to reintroduce land iguanas into Surrey.  Dr Rita-Anne McMurrey-Jones, of the Bring Land Iguanas Back to Britain  (BLIBB) campaign, said that when Surrey was just...

Wiltshire Council is a unitary authority that covers the whole of Wiltshire where I live; this now excludes Swindon thereby relieving all of us of a dreadful responsibility.  WC is run by the Conservatives who are more or less successfully...

Are you an academic who can't think what to say?  Or one too idle to do your own preparation?  Don't despair, Walter L has the answer(s) for you – and they're free. Walter sent an email to his many followers...

In England, no matter how secular you are of mindset, you always know when Easter's approaching because the teacher unions and professional associations hold their annual conferences to which the educational great 'n' good are invited.  Here's the line-up for the Association...

Whether this mad idea to have a second Stonehenge is still being considered is unclear (it was on the BBC website recently), but Graham Gould, of Salisbury City Centre Management, has described it as a "fantastic idea".  He is reported as saying:...

I'm sitting at my desk in the University of Bath.  When I actually was employed here, I spent far too much time since about 2001 worrying away about external research assessment / excellence frameworks and exercises; it passed for work....