News and Updates

When I saw this in the latest SDRN mailing, I thought researchers have discovered what many already know: happiness through looking at, and using, maps.  Not so.  Read on, especially you iPhoners: Researchers at the London School of Economics have...

Off to the launch of the Ellen Macarthur Foundation tonight. The ambition of its education programme is striking: Education at the Foundation revolves around sharing our enthusiasm for the bigger picture. It explores in particular the excitement around the circular...

It is not widely known, but the last government launched another new quango before it mis-managed its own re-election.  This was the Office for Strictures and Controll on Food and Fodder  – OFSCOFF.   As befits an era of austerity, Ofscoff's remit...

In Barcelona last week sitting on a PhD jury – one of these public defences that are literally and metaphorically foreign to the UK.  The thesis was in Catalan with a presentation to an audience of about 35 in that...

The coalition government announced today that, from 2011, the Ministry of Defence is to set up programmes in order to raise awareness of defence issues within the UK; this will include work in schools.   An MoD representative said "We...

In Portcullis House the other night at the launch of Canolfan Dechnoleg Amgen's second Zero Carbon Britain 2030 report.  Pretty gloomy stuff and nothing about education in the presentations. Those speaking certainly seemed cheerful in looking forwards (backwards more like) to the...

UPDATE:  It took about 3 weeks to get a response – which is what they promise, more or less.  But all it said was that there was no news, yet.  Meanwhile, I've written again – at SEEd's behest –  this...

For the third year running, the University has dropped in the People & Planet Green league.  From a dizzy 57th= in 2009, we are now 77th=, just scraping a 2.2, sharing this fame with Cardiff, Leicester, Westminster and Sunderland.  ...

On June 2nd, as the DfE website notes, it's the GTC whose time has come to an end.  Apart from its own, whose tears will be shed I wonder?  There's a useful list of (and comment on) what seem quite...

Scotland's Action Plan for the second half of the UN's Decade is available here.  More comment when I've read it.