News and Updates

EAUC, aka Future Imperfect, has a conference coming up on 'Collaborations for change – global goals for tomorrow's education, today'.  The conference theme, we're told, "recognises the critical role academics, researchers, students, sustainability leaders and support staff in universities and colleges...

The government's key measure of school worth, Progress 8, is under fire from headteachers who say that it discriminates against  secondary schools in traditional English working-class areas where there is usually both economic deprivation and a low proportion of pupils speaking English...

I see that the University of Bath is having what looks like a root 'n' branch review of curriculum.  It says: "As part of our Education Strategy 2016-2021 we committed to transform our curricula and approaches to assessment, particularly where this...

Quartered safely in Wiltshire as I am, heading north into the Cotswolds is always like a step back in time.  It's not just that medievalism always seems on the point of breaking out with the black death lurking under every...

I wrote the other day about whether the failings of someone's personal life (or their rebarbative views) should act as some sort of prohibition on the study or use of their work.  I cited Einstein and Kant, but there are...

I hear from those who attended an Inclusive Global Learning conference on 11th May, that DfID has handed responsibility for the UK's global learning programme [GLP] to the British Council.  Details are scarce, and there seems to be nothing on-line.  This...

The cultural highlights of last week were Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside performing Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin in the Assembly Rooms at The Bath Festival, and a film of the West End production of Gershwin's An American in Paris at the...

Here's a link to a recent thoughtful SHRE blog by Jim Hordern on the recent Owusu – Young Knowledge and power in higher education seminar at Bath that I wrote about last week. Hordern reminded us that Owusu had talked about Kant who,...

It will be rather a relief not to have to refer to EAUC again when it adopts its new brand: United Futures – even though this has an extra 2 syllables it flows more smoothly that E A U C...

The small (and under-resourced) group that has been working with UKSSD on a 'where are we' summary of how the UK is doing in relation to SDG 4 has finished  its work, the result will appear at some point as...