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This is part of an editorial in Thursday's Times. Online Anarchy Optional YouTube added a black ribbon to its logo this week as a mark of respect to those killed and maimed in Monday’s gruesome attack.  Yet as the site...

I've been reading the election manifestos – well, three of them (and a sort of manifesto from the Greens).  I did some searches for the number of times the following came up: education for sustainable development / sustainability education for...

Still not having had a response from Ofsted to my March 2017 enquiry, I wrote again: Earlier this year, I listened with great interest to the Chief Inspector’s first interview on Radio 4, and I then read her speech to the...

I was on the Shropshire hills for empty classroom day [ECD] this year, and stumbled across a year happy-looking 6 group from Hertfordshire.  Rather splendidly, they were having nothing to do with ECD as they were enjoying ECW: empty classroom week...

I was pleased to see that the UK didn't use coal to generate electricity for a full day last month – April 21st.  Climate Action said that this was "the first time since the Industrial Revolution" which is hardly the case, although...

I see that NAEE had an article the other day about the merger of LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) and FACE (Farming and Countryside Education), and the combined charity is looking for a Director, Education & Public Engagement who will … “lead and execute an...

The Greener Jobs Alliance has published its top 10 Election Demands: Keep the Climate Change Act 2008. Stick to the UK’s legally binding commitments to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 as a minimum. Ensure that UK...

The programme for the WEEC event in Vancouver in September is becoming clearer, and credit is obviously due to the organisers for taking Canada's rich cultural heritage seriously – at least as far as keynote speakers are concerned.  You can...

I mentioned the other day that the Australians had had an SDG summit last year.  Here are some of things the report had to say about education: Page 5 Universities and the academic sector have a role to play through...

There was a picture in a recent Guardian of a boy with two potatoes firmly impaled on a garden fork.  The caption is: "A pupil at Coastlands Community primary school in Pembrokeshire shows there’s a real appetite for growing food.  Schools are...