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Learning outside the classroom in local natural environments
I've been reading a draft of the Natural Connections Final Report which is a whopping 91 pages – almost as long as the evaluation proforma that Natural England suggested I use to provide my comments on the draft. Needless to say, I...
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The coming together of NAAEE and NAEE
This is the text of a guest blog that I have contributed to NAAEE's eePRO website in advance of a GEEP steering committee next week. You can read it on line here, where you will find links to the wider...
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The OECE strides into a quagmire
The OECD's education director, Andreas Schleicher, has written an article for the BBC about his brave 'n' bold plans to have a focus on "global competence" in forthcoming PISA exams. Good luck, I thought when I read it. This is a...
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GEEP, GEEP, geep and geep
I've decided to collect GEEPs. So far, I have four. You might recall that I wrote about the international one last year when I attended a meeting in San Diego. The Global Environmental Education Partnership [GEEP] is coming to the...
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Compensation for VCs
The Times Higher has a feature this week on VC pay, or "compensation package" as we're being encouraged to call it. Here's the THE: "Vice-chancellors have again come in for flak over what they are paid. We look at how their...
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The nature of Nature
Thanks to the SEEd / NAEE blogs for alerting me to recent paper in The Conservation by Hannah Pitt, Research Associate at Cardiff, comments on research by Natural England on the extent to which youth is ‘engaging with nature’. I’ve been commenting...
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Liberate your degree
Rather inevitably, perhaps, since my post on Wednesday following my meeting at the NUS, I've been reading around the notion of a "liberated and sustainable curriculum". Here's something of what NUS has to say about it: Universities rely on rigid curricula...
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The role of education institutions in tackling climate change
This morning's blog comes from Steve Martin ... The University and College Union (UCU) along with support from the National Union of Students held a one day conference last week (May 13th) at the University of Manchester, to look at...
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Pale, Male and Stale
Another stimulating day at the NUS sustainable development observatory board yesterday – although we’re now an advisory group, I note. Too many Boards, it seems. We had a glimpse of the latest survey results about what students think about the...
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A ‘green’ focus delivers both educational and financial benefits
Giving your school a ‘green’ focus delivers both educational and financial benefits, said an article in a recent TES. The abstract (that is, the taster on the page that you could read without paying) said ... "Not so long ago, sustainability...
