News and Updates

I've been reading about Gender Hub, but for all the wrong reasons. GH (not to be confused with Good Housekeeping) says that it's "a free online resource that aims to strengthen the cadre of gender expertise and its application in Nigeria....

I wonder if the forthcoming TEESNet conference, with its focus on the SDGs, will find time to consider what's going on in Nigeria where famine is looming in Borno State in the north-east of the country.  Nigeria is Africa's second largest...

It is their alleged power to enhance social mobility that seems to dominate the argument for more grammar schools in England, but what's the evidence?  Toby Young, in a recent Spectator article finds little to show that such schools have ever created or helped...

I wrote the other day about an encounter in Walthamstow with the ghost of William Morris, noting that all the fine wall paper and lovely design in the world couldn't raise the consciousness of the oppressed masses.  That's the trouble...

I was scribbling about global warming and went to the NASA website.  As well as some fine pictures – they do have some of the world's best camera angles – the screen shows some key climate change / global warming...

I made my usual Olympics resolution not to get drawn in to it all, and the 5 hour time difference ensured that I didn't watch too much.  But I did follow the track cycling drama which, if you listen to whinging foreigners,...

This was Engles' verdict on William Morris, and the quote was prominently displayed in the house where he lived as a teenager, and which I visited recently.  It's now the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, and makes for a fine day...

... for recuperation and rejuvenation.

I'm not going to EERA-ECER in Dublin which starts next week.  It would have been good to see so many familiar faces, but I no longer appreciate sitting around all day (for several days) listening to people read their papers....

There was the usual excitement at this year’s NUS National Conference.  It passed an amendment to Motion 201 in the Education Zone debate calling on NUS to determine the most effective strategy to either boycott or sabotage the 2017 National Student...