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Wildlife on the streets
I spent this morning standing on a street corner in one of our most prosperous local towns, collecting money for the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust as part of its 50th year celebrations. It was instructive to see who were the more...
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Oh for a coherent conceptual frame
Researchers from universities in Belgium, Mexico, Slovenia, the UK and the USA are setting out to look at the implementation of sustainable development principles, “as set up by the different declarations, partnerships, and initiatives into higher education institutions worldwide and...
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Don't wait: empty those classrooms today
Thanks to the NAEE blog for its advance notice of Empty Classroom Day on July 6th. Fittingly, Project Dirt has the detail. I'm never keen on these sort of focused days, and certainly when part of every school day ought surely to...
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A view from 1979 – 33 years on
Attached is an extended version of the editorial I have contributed to the 100th edition of NAEE's Environmental Education. Quite a milestone. The text looks back to what HMI were saying in 1979 about environmental education and the curriculum in...
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Guardian green
It is notoriously difficult to capture education activities focused on sustainability in a picture – quite often they look like a bunch of people sitting around talking – an accurate reflection of reality in many ways. So well done to...
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Pre-Rio perspiration
Last week, the 5th International Conference of the Living Knowledge Network issued a Communiqué on Sustainability, Knowledge and Democracy – an initiative of the 'Big Tent' Group of international networks. Some have lauded this, but I fear it's not for me....
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56 Up
I viewed the first two episodes of Michael Apted's 56 Up with nervous anticipation of a wonderful TV venture – one I have been watching since the late 1970s when the early programmes were used on Bath's pre-service teacher education PGCE...
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No such thing as a free education after all
This week's Economist reports that the Scottish government is having to raid FE budgets (and other unspecified pots) to keep its universities afloat. Scotland may be able to write education policies, but it is still subject to financing decisions made...
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How green is your poster?
Here's an educational question, if not yet an existential one: should you laminate your poster, or not? This will be a question which, for many, is a no-brainer in that it's obviously something not to do because it isn't actually...
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Coming to a vending machine near your children
Yesterday's Guardian reported that a survey by the School Food Trust [SFT] has shown that 89 out of 100 academies suveyed are selling high sugar / fat / salt snacks (aka junk food) that do not conform to the 2008...
