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Keeping sugar producers sweet
The Economist has a lengthy article on the economics of sugar production – as controlled by the EU's complex set of regulations and rules. It's worth a read for an insight into how complicated the production of a simple product...
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Babble or something worse?
I got this the other day about a special issue of EER: New Materialisms and Environmental Education This is part of what it said: In New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency & Politics, Coole and Frost (2010) argue that contemporary environmental, economic, geopolitical, and technological...
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Is it time for Tom Harwood?
I see that a reasonably normal person is standing for NUS President. That's Tom Harwood. You can see him here. Tom says that "Together we can make the NUS more inclusive, moderate, and credible". You can see more at: TomForNUS.com...
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Geography for geographers
Last year, the Commission on Geographical Education (CGE) published an International Charter on Geographical Education. This imposing tome fails the real-world test at the first hurdle. Despite this being a 2016 publication, there is only one reference to the SDGs. This is...
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The shocking state of nature
It is being said that the UK has one of the worst records for protecting native wildlife, and intensive farming is largely to blame. 56% of the 8,000 species assessed have declined in the past four decades with almost 1,200 species at...
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Six days with Mrs M
I spend 6 days with Mrs M last week; well not with her exactly, but being in Germany amounts to much the same thing, the degree of social conformity you're faced with. The sight of grown men (and women) standing at a...
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Needed: a sensible curriculum framing
In 1980, in A View of the Curriculum; HMI Series: Matters for Discussion No. 11, HMI said this: The curriculum, whether for a school as a whole or for individual pupils, has to be presented as more than a series of...
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The missing EAUC Fellows
EAUC has launched a Fellows programme; you can find a full list of Fellows here. It is always difficult to draw up such lists and, individually, we may well be surprised about (to us) obvious omissions and/or odd choices. Personally, I think...
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Curriculum for What?
In the 1980s, it was commonplace for English governments to copy, rather uncritically, educational initiatives from the USA. It was, I suppose, an example of post-cultural cringe. Those days are long gone. There is nothing necessary problematic about looking around to see...
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DfE replies
As I noted back in early March, I wrote to Ofsted asking about the speech made by the new Chief Inspector (to the ASCL conference). At the same time, I also wrote to the DfE asking, in particular, about this part of her speech: "I...
