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An accidental Starbucks
I had a pretty standard cup of Starbucks coffee the other day; unwontedly, I should say. I was on a train and only saw the logo when the drink was on my little table. I drank it anyway, my liquid...
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I know! Let's ban packed lunches in schools. What larks ...
Alongside the (rather positive) notion that children in schools (up to 14) should have an entitlement to classes wherein they are helped to learn to cook "healthy and wholesome" (but only "savoury") meals, there is, I am told, the completely...
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The Quality Industry and Education for Unsustainability
I’ve been reading my way through the material produced by the QAA and a clutch of universities in the online Guide to Quality and Education for Sustainability in HE. I began with the various video talking heads, and I was...
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Can you really have food without growing it? Mr Gove says Yes!
The draft national curriculum proposals for design technology has this to say in relation to food (growing / cooking / eating): In Key Stages 1 to 3 pupils should be taught progressively more demanding practical knowledge, skills and crafts, working...
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Children’s motivations, interests and knowledge: lessons from sustainability
This was supposed to be the title of brief article I wrote for Primary Geography, and which has just been published. Unfortunately, in the editing process, everything before, and including, the colon got lost, and I am left with the...
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Environment? Sustainability? What's that got to do with me?
I gave a talk the other day to around 170 6th form students at Bath's Prior Park College which is based in and around Ralph Allen's home. Quite a setting! Sadly, I talked in a somewhat more modern part of...
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Computer science joins the EBacc
The DfE announced last week that computer science has been added to the list of science subjects that count towards the EBacc. This has been widely welcomed, albeit with some extravagant hype about Alan Turing's legacy. Here's a flavour ......
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Is education unnatural?
This was the title of Stephen Gough's Inaugural Lecture last Thursday in Bath. He concluded, after an erudite tour d'horizon that it wasn't. There was, of course, much play around nature / natural, and I noted, I think for the...
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Davos, The Guardian, McKinsey, the circular economy ...
... and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. [Note 1] Although this looks like a variation on the old IQ test training game of putting disparate phrases into one sentence, if you go to the Guardian Sustainable Business hub, you'll find an article,...
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Neither national, nor a curriculum
It was a pleasure to read Robin Alexander's incisive critique of Mr Gove's attempts at curriculum reform: pleasing, but oh so disappointing that such a riposte should prove necessary. Here's the Abstract to Alexander's Forum paper for a flavour of...
