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Didactics and the National Trust
I've been leafing through the NT's Autumn magazine and turned to the article by Simon Murray, the Senior Director of Everything with particular interest. Actually Murray is only i/c Strategy, Curatorship, Visitor Experience, and External Affairs, but you do wonder...
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My week
A time to remember – A visit from an old friend and colleague from the Netherlands prompted thoughts about the 1980s when I believed the EU was a force for good, and teacher education the "priority of priorities". No longer, of course....
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Subjective well-being over the life course: evidence and policy implications
This the prolix title of an international conference in London on 12/13 December at the LSE. It's asking: Why should governments care about people’s wellbeing, and How would policy change if raising wellbeing was the objective? The conference blurb says:...
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A triumph for NUS and Jamie Agombar
Well done to the NUS sustainability team for scooping a whopping global ESD Prize. They'll be off to Paris in October, to UNESCO Central Command, and three days of launching and lunching in that special French way. There are three...
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What might Brexit mean for the environment?
In a new study, Charlotte Burns, Andrew Jordan and Viviane Gravey, explore what Brexit might come to mean for UK environmental policies and governance processes by comparing two scenarios: a ‘soft’ and a ‘hard’ Brexit. A ‘soft’ Brexit would see the UK...
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Traditional whaling in the Faroes
Last week's Spectator has an article by Heri Joensen, the lead singer of Tyr, a Faroese heavy metal band, on his social media problems after he confessed to taking part in a grindadráp, the hunting of long-finned pilot whales when they get close...
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Gender Hubbub
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....
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750,000 hungry people in the north-east of 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...
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No one's using the C word
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...
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Revolution through soft furnishings
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...
