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This is what the Wellcome Collection says about its new exhibition: Making Nature — how we see animals ... The question of how humans relate to other animals has captivated philosophers, anthropologists, ethicists and artists for centuries. This exhibition will...

I see that Learning for Sustainability Scotland's AGM will have an Sustainable Development Goal theme.  The focus is: Transforming our World: Responding to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals through Education It's on Thursday 19 January 2017 [1300 to 1630] at Moray House...

To its great credit, BBC Radio has just had a series of programmes celebrating Alison McGregor, and the pioneering feminist work of Edinburgh's Fair Intellectual Club in the early 18th Century.  Forget Ada Lovelace; it's time to celebrate Alison McG,...

As, on my good days, I'm a liberal internationalist, I read Timothy Garton Ash's piece in The Gurdian: Liberal internationalists have to own up: we left too many people behind, with more than passing interest – as I do with most of...

Monday 5th December was the International Day of Soil.  Tuesday 6th December was the day the latest PISA results were released.  From Soil to Toil.  UK schools hover around 15th to 20th in the international league.  England does best (if...

In a Times report the other day about how the ever-generous taxpayer continues to lavishly fund UK and other consultancy firms out of the foreign aid budget, was the story of average payments by DfID of £4,765 for writing a...

The Guardian's headline over its report on People 'n' Planet's new league table was: Universities struggle to meet green goals Specifically, they reported this: "UK universities are helping lead the world on environmental research – but when it comes to...

I, whimsically perhaps, thought that going to the Tate's Paul Nash exhibition might be a good preparation for last Friday's Defra meeting and the discussion of the government's grand 25-year post-Brexit plan for the environment.  Whilst the Defra event was never...

There was a meeting last week at Defra about the UK's 25-year environment plan.  This was not actually about the plan, or about the environment; rather, it was about that most muddled of ideas, outdoor learning. If we get the "outdoor...

Describing itself as a "one-stop shop for education data" which brings together "brings together all available data", UNESCO's Institute for Statistics has launched its eAtlas for Education 2030.  Sadly, it's off to a poor start. If you go here, you...