News and Updates

Rather belatedly, I discover that Thursday – 26th January – was the World Day of Environmental Education.  I'm grateful to Learn from Nature, for pointing this out.  It seems that this has its origin in 1972 with the Declaration of...

This week's Economist carried a sad tale of a decade of scholastic stagnation in Wales following the teacher unions' (entirely selfless) success in persuading a credulous government that it was in young people's interests that national league tables of schools...

In a recent posting, I commented that the expert group's proposal to government that an aim of the revised curriculum ought to be to ... Promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally was a pertinent phrasing...

The BBC reported on saturday that the Occupy movement is looking to extend its activities to outreach; that is to the wider community including schools.  The BBC reports: The protest group says the point of its occupation is to reclaim "the space...

I'll be surprised if DfE were to turn down the recommendations of the expert group that D&T / ICT / Citizenship should become an aspect of the Basic Curriculum in English schools as opposed to the heavily prescribed National Curriculum....

In the last post, I referred to (and welcomed) the Expert Panel's recommendations to government about revisions to the English national curriculum.  This posting builds on that by setting out those aspects of the review document that relate to sustainability....

I'm pleased to have been appointed to the Higher Education Academy's new ESD advisory group which has just been reconstituted to make it more representative of the sector and of interests, with a sharpening of focus.  That is good evidence...

The Telegraph reports today that carbon emissions look set to delay (and probably avert) the next ice age which is just the sort of new year message we all need.  A considerable bonus will be that it will also mean...

I'm grateful to the NUS's Jamie Agombar for pointing me towards recent Defra-sponsored research on behaviour.  One of these studies focused on moments of change. This research project explored whether ‘moments of change’ – times in a person’s life where existing...

The city of Bath, it seems, has a new phenomenon: knitting snoods for chickens. I am told that, such is the concern for those birds newly-freed from the thankfully now-outlawed battery cages, and adopted by caring folk with back yards,...