News and Updates

You could tell the PISA scores were going to be bad when, just before publication, Mr Gove blamed the last government's policies.  In the event, PISA revealed the UK to be around the OECD average for maths and reading, and a...

First, warm congratulations to Simon Kemp who won the Times Higher Award last week for 'most innovative teacher of the year'.  The judges said: Simon Kemp’s imaginative approach to teaching, particularly by putting students in high-pressure, real-life business situations, hugely...

The SDRN’s Annual Conference: Sustainable development in the UK in 2020 is to take place on Tuesday, 28th January at the BIS Conference Centre in London. SDRN says: The UK has committed to a range of nationally and internationally-set sustainable...

I got my invitation the other day to the House of Commons launch of "Enabling the future we want: education for sustainable development in the UK – a manifesto for dialogue, collaboration and action post Rio+20". This is the first...

I wrote the other day about how hard it had proved to find out anything about Bristol's ESD activities from their website.  Bristol's Chris Willmore kindly responded, pointing out that it's better to use Google, and she posted this to...

I wrote a month or so ago about the new policy for free school meals for early primary children in England.  I am still wondering how Mr Gove went along with the universalist nature of this, but no matter.  The...

This week began with a walk with grandchildren in London's Highgate Woods where I was surprised how much damage the recent storm had caused.  Despite the debris (mostly oak), it was a great place to run around. A Linkedin update...

This is what the University of Bristol says about itself in EAUC’s 2013 Green Gown winners brochure: University of Bristol Embedding Education for Sustainable Development across the curriculum The University of Bristol has delivered a student led ESD initiative, reflecting...

I've looked at two surveys this week.  The first was that distributed by QAAHEA about its new draft Guidelines to HE institutions about SD / ESD (it never quite decided which this was).  The second was about the National Student...

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Field Studies Council, the RSA convened a panel to look 70 years into the future, and predict the emerging drivers which might most affect people's physical connections with the outdoor environment.  This the...