News and Updates

It's a long while since I've been moved on by the police, but it happened last month.  I'd popped into my local town to support students from the Wiltshire branch of Teach the Future who'd been doing banner drops (where...

A whole bunch of educational organisations are taking the Glasgow meeting of COP26 seriously by either planning to be there to encourage delegates, by producing resources for schools, or holding webinars – or all three.  This follows government calls for...

I listened into the latest Wild Live webinar the other day, but came away disappointed. In case you wanted a reason not to watch it, I can reveal [Spoiler Alert!] the answer to the question posed in the title is:...

Way back in what now almost seems another life, I used to travel round Somerset and Wiltshire watching PGCE students teach.  I got into the habit of looking at class lists to note the fore-names of those being taught, and...

In The Tables Turned, Wordsworth wrote: "... One impulse from a vernal wood  /  May teach you more of man,  /  Of moral evil and of good,  /  Than all the sages can.  ..." I've just returned from such a wood which...

In a bold move today, the government has announced plans to nationalise all England's golf courses and open them up for housing development.  A spokesperson for the newly merged government DEpartment For Golf, Housing Innovation and Justice (DEFGHIJ), Dx Sandy...

A while back, Teach the Future launched a campaign to have members of the education professions write to their MPs calling for better climate education in schools.  I duly obliged.  Below is what I sent based on a template provided...

News comes that Kew Gardens is to decolonise its collection.  Kew recently published a manifesto for change, saying that it was going to “ensure the diverse countries and cultures that partner with RBG Kew and contribute to our collections are accurately...

I've been asked, given what I've been writing lately (see this and this), whether I'm still a supporter of the promised natural history GCSE from OCR. Well, given that I'm still a member of the advisory board, the answer is...

I've lost count of the number of times that I've had to argue that scepticism is a positive process.  In part this is clearly because some people conflate scepticism and cynicism which they regard as negativity whereas it is also...