News and Updates

  • An early April Fool?

    ABU DHABI, 17th March, 2022 (WAM) -- Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) will host the 12th World Environment Education Congress (WEEC) in Abu Dhabi in 2024, it was officially announced at the end of congress' 11th edition held in...

  • Energy is security so let's talk about it in schools

    If I were heading up a school's general studies programme for older students, right now I'd be planning an exploration as to whether the country ought to ease off on its net-zero ambitions in the face of the new energy...

  • A piem for pie day

    Pie day today.  Well, not "pie day" but π Day.  A day to celebrate all things to do with π. And this is a piem (that should be πem, I guess): Pie. I wish I could determine pi Eureka cried...

  • The need for environmental education

    I had an email exchange yesterday with an old friend who's in the environmental education business and who is as disgusted as I am about the unprovoked carnage in Ukraine.  They wondered if our interest in the environment wasn't rather trivial...

  • Kirill's bravery and the DfE

    A tribute today to the 12-year old Russian schoolboy [Kirill] who challenged his teacher's statement that the war in Ukraine was necessary to halt Kyiv’s aggression.  He argued with her when she said that Ukraine was a Nazi state and...

  • A model music curriculum for England

    Last year, the DfE published a model music curriculum.  It escaped my attention but I've now read it.  The Foreword and the introduction to the document makes these points: The Model Music Curriculum [MMC] is designed to introduce the next...

  • The DfE's new model curriculum

    They've been quietly planning to change the curriculum down in Sanctuary Buildings.  But this has nothing to do with climate or other environmental issues; far from it.  It's a change to something much more significant – history.  The government plans...

  • Hide your dirty oil and money

    There have been a number of campaigns of late to persuade investment funds to disinvest from oil, gas and coal industries.  The motivation, as I understand it, was to reduce the flow capital to these industries and hence to speed...

  • World ranking coincidences

    The EE Maillist had news the other day that the World List of Sustainability Researchers and the World Ranking of Sustainability Researchers are being updated for 2022.  We're invited to put ourselves forward for inclusion.  The deadline is 25th February...

  • NEU on the DfE's draft strategy

    These are the points made about curriculum in the National Education Union's response to the DfE's draft strategy which says: Within schools, the science, geography and citizenship programmes in the National Curriculum at both primary (KS1-2) and secondary (KS3-4) cover...