News and Updates

I spend a small part of Sunday morning reading an extended and informed Internet discussion about (so called) Junk DNA and the rival claims made by research groups about the idea of junk, and each other.  You can find, and...

This is how the draft national curriculum specification for geography begins: A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives....

DECC has now moved its content to gov.uk/decc Current content from the old DECC website has been transferred and organised into the following policy priorities, with supporting pages: Helping households to cut their energy bills Includes: Green Deal, Warm Home Discount...

The latest South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition seminar was held on February 14th in Totnes.  The topic was Learning in Transition.  Appropriately, we met in the Totnes Transition Network meeting room. Ben Brangwyn opened the seminar with some background...

I've been reading the green learning blog, a new output from the education, schools and families team at the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.  For a Trustee, with a particular interest in environmental learning, this kind of communication is a great way...

The Quality Assurance Agency [QAA] has a new resource out for consultation: Enterprise and entrepreneurship education: guidance for UK higher education providers. QAA says that this ... "has been developed by representatives drawn from, and acting on behalf of, the enterprise...

I wrote recently about Mark Lynas's Damascene conversion to GM.  Here he is again, testing out his position against the views of an eminent US scientist, Nina Fedoroff.  Oh that we all did the equivalent of that! And here, for...

I had a pretty standard cup of Starbucks coffee the other day; unwontedly, I should say.   I was on a train and only saw the logo when the drink was on my little table.  I drank it anyway, my liquid...

Alongside the (rather positive) notion that children in schools (up to 14) should have an entitlement to classes wherein they are helped to learn to cook "healthy and wholesome" (but only "savoury") meals, there is, I am told, the completely...

I’ve been reading my way through the material produced by the QAA and a clutch of universities in the online Guide to Quality and Education for Sustainability in HE. I began with the various video talking heads, and I was...