News and Updates

Today's Observer carried this critique: Britain's top animal disease scientists have launched a devastating attack on the government's "mindless" badger cull, accusing ministers of failing to tell the truth and demanding the immediate abandonment of the killings.  The intervention by dozens of...

I have, at last, run out of excuses for not looking at the phenomenon that is Blue Marble.  I note that the Untidy Britain Group is now part of this, as the latest BM Mag notes ... The need for...

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 is something to be gained by...

Defra is consulting on a new SD indicator set.  So far, there have only been 80 responses and the consultation closes on October 15th. There are now 12 provisional headline indicators [ HI ] that are meant to be high-level outcome...

... when the EAUC treats with the EDG on November 14th. Although meeting the diminished Clegg may now be a turn-off rather than the turn-on he once was, don't worry because he may not even be there. It's a proven,...

Another excursion yesterday into the slightly surreal and often intermittent world of the Skype conference call; six people in 4 locations.  It worked remarkably well, thanks in no small part to the computer moderator and everyone's patience.  I thought of...

I spoke briefly at a Food Growing in Schools Task Force conference the other day, offering a summary of the day.  I'll not trouble you with what I said, though you can see a few presenters' PPts here, other than...

I see that the University is now 3rd in the Sunday Times League table (up from 5th).  My very limited straw poll yesterday suggests a degree of incredulity as to how this is possible, and puzzlement as to what it...

... that is to say, architects.  According to the Guardian, dirigists in the DfE have clamped down on bendy walls, novel materials, open spaces, glass-substitutes, internal partitions, and glazed walls in the new design templates for their new, cheaper, Building Schools...

So, welcome to the International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education (IJECEE) which is to be published by NAAEE which, I am told, is bearing all publication costs (except reviewing). Its blurb say it will publish scholarly written work, anonymously and...