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  • Salute the non-conformist 2%

    Eco-Schools Scotland reports that 98% of local authority schools have now joined the movement. Given that the Holyrood administration sees Eco-schools as a vector for its policies, and has told schools to sign up, this is no surprise, perhaps.  Or...

  • More frequent flier points anyone?

    As is drearily predictable, the BBC's much trailed new Earth science programme – Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey – turned out to be another excuse for collecting air miles and for presenters to have fun.  For once, however, Brian Cox missed...

  • It's a brave school ...

    It's a brave school that posts a Ken Robinson RSAnimate video on its website, but this is what Montgomery school in Devon has done. And the school isn't backward about coming forward: Welcome to Montgomery Primary School, the first Zero...

  • More on the proposed revisions to England's national curriculum

    As I have noted already, the expert panel set up by government to think about revisions to the national curriculum, has proposed that one of the high-level curriculum aim statement is this … The school curriculum should develop pupils’ knowledge, understanding,...

  • Keep Scotland beautiful – but let's hear more about it

    Keep Scotland Beautiful sports a number of blogs which were established back in September 2011 in an obvious fit of enthusiasm for new-ish media.  One of these is that rare species, the environmental education blog.   This is written by...

  • iTunes for ESD

    It's wonderful what you can find on iTunes these days, but to come across a whole lot of stuff on ESD some may think rather unexpected.  Not so, however, just click here to find 81 (at today's count) outputs from Education...

  • Sustainability megaforces – but not quite the usual suspects

    KPMG have published a report on the sustainability megaforces will “impact each and every business over the next 20 years" – and the rest of us, no doubt.  Ten are cited: Climate Change Energy & fuel Material resource scarcity Water...

  • Keele watch

    The University of Keele has appointed Jonathon Porritt as its new Chancellor – brave, or what? I ask this as JP remains an activist to his core as completely befits someone who a founder of Forum for the Future, and...

  • The idea of the graduate attribute

    I am recently returned from an HEA policy think tank on Graduate attributes and the green economy. This is the two-page stimulus paper I drafted for the event: The idea of the graduate attribute This is appealing, seductive almost, and...

  • Watts up with Chris Huhne?

    In the spirit of balance and fair-mindedness, I have been struggling for a week or so to find anyone with a good word to say about the lately departed Chris Huhne, but the web is full of direct and/or oblique...