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I was not one of the 100 or so professors (or so) who wrote to the Telegraph the other week taking Mr Gove to task on his curriculum reforms, largely because I wasn't significant enough to be invited.  As such,...

There has been much fuss recently about the 'removal' of climate change from the English national curriculum, and the evils that will result.  I have already touched on this in respect of geography teaching, and feel likely  [Add heavy heart...

Hefce has just pressed £5m into the NUS palm c/o its Catalyst Fund.  Here are the outline details from the funding council ... The funding will help students to engage with their universities and colleges on sustainable development, and to...

I'm pleased to report that those selfless UNECE folk have been travelling round Europe again, staying in nice hotels, in order to instruct the rest of us in how to live sustainably. But we should not carp!  Indeed, our collective...

A spokesperson for the Department of Education, Dr Ratko O'Malley, confirmed today that the DfE is to buy 800,000 copies of Gary Thomas's new OUP publication, Education: A Very Short Introduction, which was published last week.  These will be distributed...

I don't know!  You leave the country for a few days to bask in UNESCO's world heritage beneficence, and when you return you find Parliament proposing to overthrow hundreds of years of hard-won press freedoms.  Not only that, but blogs...

... they did it yesterday" is an observation that is sometimes remarked of the Scots – quite often, it has to be said, by the Scots.  However, when it comes to ESD – or Learning for Sustainability – as they...

Sir Allen Langlands is the Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.  This is the text of a recent letter about HE, learning, and sustainability.  It speaks for itself, as does the list of those signing. Dear...

Rolf Jucker, of Switzerland's new éducation21, posted this on SHED SHARE a few days ago: Since January 2013 I work in a new foundation here in Switzerland which is called éducation21 and is conceived as a one-stop-shop for ESD in Switzerland...

I've been nudged towards Mark Avery's blog which I didn't know about, but, then, I suppose he knows even less about me.  Avery is an Ex-RSBP Director of Conservation, and much more. I was struck by the following passage, which...