News and Updates

When I wrote this ... Just so that VW could lie to the public ... on the wall sticker in the Gedenk und Bildungsstätte Centre in Erfurt, my wife said "That makes you sound like a communist".  Maybe so, but I have...

This is the first of a number of posts about my Summer visit to south-eastern Germany. The highlight of my trip to Germany was not the wonderful black pilsner I found, or the glories of a grandchild developing language skills,...

I've written before about Mrs M's hold on the German people, and to understand modern Germany, I think it's helpful to recall the idea of the panopticon. As you know, the original panopticon was the brainchild, we're told, of Jeremy...

This is the front page of what Pearson has to say about its global learning programme: The Global Learning Programme (GLP) is a funded programme of support that’s helping teachers in primary, secondary and special schools to deliver effective teaching...

It's well known that William W was against the railways, but what would he have made of UNESCO making the English Lake District a World heritage Site?  We'll never know, but that's ok because we've got George Monbiot.  He wrote...

LEAF [ Linking Environment And Farming ] recently merged with (that is, acquired) FACE [ Farming And Countryside Education ], although you'd not know this from a look at the front pages of its website, or at the board of directors, none of whom has...

Just for your enjoyment, I'm pasting the whole of EAUC's message about the "wild success" of the 2017 Leadership Lab.  Surely it cannot have been as bad as all this implies. Turning Our Unconscious Competence into Conscious Competence The power...

I've written about UKSSD before when I wondered about why there were so few educational members.  They are in the news again and here's a question: How many of these significant people have you heard of: Dominic White - Head...

After the exhausting gloom of the planning enquiry that I wrote about recently, we set off for the Home Counties and the RHS's Hampton Court Flower Show.  We stayed in a hotel of decaying splendour which was once a fine...

I wrote about Tbilisi about 6 months ago, wondering how that eponymous declaration would be celebrated, 40 years on.  And, about 5 years ago, I set out a list of the significant EE world conferences etc.  This was thanks to Alan...