News and Updates

I read that young people in Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, Luton and London have been leaving school to march calling for a ceasefire in the Hamas – Israel conflict that was caused by the terrorist group's genocidal attack on Israeli civilians...

In today's government reshuffle, which sees Lord David "hug a husky" Cameron back in the cabinet, spare a thought for the once great survivor, Nick Gibb who has surely been sacked for the last time.  Gibb, a voice for high...

Thanks to NAEE's weekly news round-up for an alert to a new policy brief from the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath on the climate crisis in UK national curricula.  The author, Katharine Lee, says that the...

I don't usually have too many positive things to say about Bill Gates – he did after all give us the Microsoft operating system – but in an interview with Our World in Data he makes an important point about...

The Guardian, has reported that officials at the DfE have been conducting social media surveillance on a number of UK education specialists who've had the temerity to criticise government policy.  The paper reported: "Officials at the DfE also tried to...

I note much recent discussion about the lack of a regulatory structure for psychotherapists and counsellors (and nutritionists).  This got me wondering about naturalists * – this is a reference the press often gives to folk who opine about environmental...

When writing about youngsters in schools, there are two lines (schools?) of thought about the term to be used.  Is it pupils or students?  Students, of course, is le mot juste for FE and HE, and a generation ago it...

The government has clearly gone mad.  That's to say it's given in to activist civil servants and let them have their way over recycling (and probably much else besides).  Back in 2021, Defra ran a consultation about recycling consistency.  It...

Thanks to the NAEE weekly news round-up for an alert to the forthcoming EAUC (Scotland) ESD webinar which will explore integrating environmental sustainability into HE/FE learning and teaching.  EAUC says: “While sustainability is all about the interconnections between the social,...

Knowing what words really mean is an essential reading aid, especially when it comes to reviews or blurbs.  So here's a guide (source unknown but I got it c/o a response to the Bluestocking article on book blurbs.  Of course,...