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Another thing for the Welsh Education Minister to blame
Research at Bristol University in 2014 revealed the negative effect that watching international football on TV can have on GCSE performance. When there's a summer world cup or european championships, on average students do about half a grade worse in one GCSE...
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Brexit, EE and global education
Environmental education had a good referendum campaign in that nothing bad or scurrilous was said about it; no one burnt effigies of the founding fathers, NAEE's head office wasn't mired in graffiti, and the historic meeting of NAEE and NAAEE...
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Can ESD keep Scotland in the EU?
I see that Gibraltar and Scotland are talking about how they might co-operate to stay within the EU. As the Royal Navy and ESD are about the only things they have in common, that might be a tall order (and...
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Do we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature’s migrants?
I made a contribution to NAEE's blog the other day exploring whether we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature’s migrants if we are to combat climate change. This was a column I'd written a while back for the...
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A post mortum at the RSPB
Early on last Thursday morning, RSPB Chief Executive, Mike Clarke, commented on the result of the EU referendum. His remarks included what RSPB members might have expected, and wanted, to read: "As the new constitutional settlement is negotiated over the coming months (and years?),...
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Brexit, farmers, wildlife, landscapes and learning
There is much angst (an inappropriate word, surely) among those who speak for wildlife, and the biosphere more generally in the UK, following the referendum, but there is also a growing sense of realism that there's a job to be...
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One badger, one vote
There is something of an argument for giving wildlife the vote, given how much humans depend on it (well, the biosphere in general) for our continuing well-being and survival. Putting this into operation is the difficult thing. One badger, one vote,...
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Wildlife never voted for Brexit
As I sit here on Saturday morning mulling over the popular vote last Thursday to quit the EU, there are already stories of wildlife flexing their muscles and flapping their wings in preparation to leave a country so out of touch...
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The Earth still turns
When I switched on the TV this morning (about 0400), it was obvious that, despite the wildlife vote and tendentious videos about dirty beaches, we had voted to leave the EU. Of course, whether we actually shall is quite another...
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UK Education: is it fair and fit for purpose?
This was the title of a St. George's House seminar then Tuesday which I went to by kind invitation of the NUS. A great setting, of course, and we met in a room (the Vicar's Hall) where it seems it was...
