News and Updates

Thanks to the NAEE blog for alerting me to a piece by Rob Bushby in The Scotsman. Bushy is the awards manager for the John Muir Trust and he was writing about whether children are really as disconnected from nature as we're...

This was the slogan of an event in London on Sunday which I missed.  It was billed as a national summit and had the title: TRUMP BREXIT & BEYOND It was organised by NUS, SOAS student union and LIBER8 Education....

The Global Conference on Education and Research (GLOCER) has been quick off the mark announcing that its May 22-25 event at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee is inviting researchers to submit abstracts for white papers, research papers, roundtable discussions, symposium...

The Economist is hosting a sustainability summit on March 23rd / 24th.  Details here.  Its blurb says: Over the past two centuries, global economic development has often come at the expense of our environment.  Ice caps have melted, forests have been flattened,...

I wrote the other day about the problems inherent in target 4.7 of the SDGs: By 2030, ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles,...

I've been re-reading the Tbilisi Declaration which remains more inspiring than many a document produced recently.  It's 40 years old this year, so we can expect celebrations, etc.  Though what exactly is to be celebrated remains unclear. I was struck by...

In its Christmas edition, the Economist ran a leading article on the need for even more liberalism in 2017 – despite its many sets-back in 2016.  I was struck by the passage: As a set of beliefs that emerged at the...

A day at the zoo - not a favourite place of mine.  I went for a Joint School Grounds & Natural Environment Sectors LOtC Partnership meeting and the main animals I saw were human (mostly young), flamingoes and moorhens.  The last...

The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance has released videos of its recent seminar: Subjective well-being over the life course: evidence and policy implications.   Here's the background: Why should governments care about people's wellbeing? How would policy change if raising wellbeing...

A study has found that the provision of free breakfast clubs for primary schools in disadvantaged areas boosted maths and literacy results.  The work was evaluated by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and looked at free breakfasts provided before the...