News and Updates

I spent an enjoyable hour on Friday afternoon last week watching a dozen or so student videos that Simon Kemp kindly alerted the SHED network to. Simon wrote ... I would like to alert you to our ‘Sustainability Film Festival’...

I wrote a while ago about the re-birth of the Sustainable Schools Alliance.   A proposed management board for the Alliance met two weeks ago.  It was a good turn out with a good mix of organisations around the table, including: Anglian...

I have been watching the run-away train that is the government's new energy bill as it careers towards us.  I've thought all along, as I have listened to rumour and leaks, that, surely, no one could be so stupid as...

One of the problems of trying to be an environmental educator is how do you take the need for social and economic change seriously when you're addressing the environment. It seems axiomatic that this has to be done, one way...

Browsing the Guardian, I came across John Jerrim's 2011 (but suddenly very topical) report for the Institute of Education: England’s “plummeting” PISA test scores between 2000 and 2009: Is the performance of our secondary school pupils really in relative decline? Here’s the...

DBIS has announced that its funding the the Learning and Skills Improvement service will come to an end in August 2013.  This is the last of a series of cuts in recent years.  LSIS has confirmed that it will cease...

Last week's THE brought a blast of clear air honesty in its wake: Frank Furedi on the bad faith of learning outcomes. Question: "Professor Furedi, how do you get around learning outcomes?" Answer: "I just make them up and ignore...

The Sustainable Schools Alliance has gone through a difficult period since its birth in 2011, with two of the three parent organisations more or less abandoning it.  Fortunately, the remaining one, SEEd, has proved more tenacious, and a re-launch (you can...

Did you see this report in the China Daily on the new Global Pambassadors scheme (thanks to Learn from Nature). The report begins, rather breathlessly, ... The audience burst into hearty laughter when Frenchman Serge Pouille said he loved the giant...

Apparently, "November 2012 saw the launch of a UK dialogue process to explore the future of education for sustainability in the UK", or so EAUC reports.   "At the invitation of the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) in collaboration...