News and Updates

I wasn't able to be at the launch of the Manifesto we all Want the other day.  Had I been there, however, I hope that I might have managed to write the sort of perceptive review that the University of...

Are you tired of life?  Are you jaded by its materialist urgings?   Do you feel yourself helpless in a neo-liberal embrace?  Have you lost sight of what it is to be inter-human?  Do you no longer know who you...

I am slowly catching up with the changes to English Heritage [ EH ].  These are visionary or desparate, according to taste.  EH is to be broken up:  one part, still to be called English Heritage, will become a charity...

About a year ago, I wrote this: We are encouraged to take both the Copernicus Alliance, and EAUC’s LiFE (Learning in Future Environments), seriously, as major initiatives supporting sustainability and learning, and I have no doubt that, for those involved, there...

This began well with an extended cabaret on the lawn by a green woodpecker and then the arrival of the first fieldfares.  Fortunately, we have enough apples and ants to cater for all. Poor PISA scores were heralded by Sunday newspaper...

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...