News and Updates

I began drafting this post at the end of March, on a train slowly making its way through that most soothing of landscapes, the Wiltshire Downs.  I was returning home from three days on the road: grandchildren (an education in...

The UN general Assembly is devoting 24 days in 2013 to an open working group on sustainable development goals.  Of these just part of one day (in November) is devoted to education, with "employment and decent work for all", "social...

...tossing their heads in sprightly dance. No.  Mercifully not daffodils, but snakeshead fritillaries at one of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust's splendid reserves in the Cotswold Water Park. I didn't count them, of course, but OU researchers did.  Good to see...

There was an unusual flurry of activity in Shed Share last week.  It followed this request from the student union at the London Institute of Education (IoE): Hello. I am part of the Sustainability Network at the Institute of Education,...

The Economist has a piece last week on academic journal publishing: It begins, AT THE beginning of April, Research Councils UK, a conduit through which the government transmits taxpayers’ money to academic researchers, changed the rules on how the results...

That's 400 ppm of atmospheric CO2, of course as a symbolic (though hardly milestone) level is reached, and exceeded.  The 400.03 ppm figure was reported by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] on May 10th.  For the record, these...

The ever-reliable Learn from Nature alerts me to a recent piece in the Guardian which I somehow missed.  This reveals – SHOCK –  that one secretary of state (Davy) has written a private letter to another (Gove) about the need...

Being confused about English school curriculum aims (statutory, voluntary or otherwise), I recently asked the DfE this; If you go to: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum/b00199676/aims-values-and-purposes/aims ... you find three aims for the national curriculum set out.  On the right, there is a link...

Houston, Wednesday 1st May The All American Association for Affirmative Action for Dis-Ablebodied Animals [ AAAAAD-AA ] has called for less discrimination by wildlife charities in their treatment of animals, and criticised the continual portrayal of stereotypical images of fit...

As I noted yesterday, I signed a letter that the Sunday Times published on 14th April.  In association with this, I was contacted by the Sunday Times last Thursday evening.  They said: "We also want to publish a news story...