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Good News from the DfE
The following statement of support from ministers is on the DfE website: The government is fully committed to sustainable development and the importance of preparing young people for the future. Our approach to reform is based on the belief that...
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An Inspiring Day in Lewes
To Lewes, yesterday, for the latest FERN meeting; as always, good to meet up to discuss research and environmental / sustainability education. A modest, but quality, turn-out. The main event of the day was to visit the Railway Land Project...
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Brilliant White Wheat
A report in yesterday's Times (sorry, no link possible) about crop breeders developing glossy plants that will reflect more sunlight than duller varieties, and thus combat climate change. Well, fine, but if there weren't so much prejudice against GMOs this...
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UN World Grant Asia-Europe Promotion
I heard this morning that I have won £475,000 in this United Nations "online international program" – and I didn't even have to apply. Now, haven't I always said that the UN was wonderful? All I have to do, it...
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DfE Plays a Straight Bat
DfE (and Ofsted) have responded to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry Transforming Education Outside the Classroom. Annex 2 begins: Progress since 2004: 1. Under the previous Administration, significant progress was made in bringing together organisations with an interest in promoting...
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Encountering a Pair of Scoundrels
It is with immense sadness that I have to report that my scholarly work has been traduced (yet again!); though mugged might be a better word. It's easy really: you find a quote that suits your purpose, you copy it making...
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Cui Bono?
Today's Guardian has a story about a report on the Fairtrade Foundation which compares its effectiveness unfavourably with multinationals (Nestlé, etc) when it comes to helping developing world coffee farmers. This is an IEA report which seems to say, amongst...
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Climate Change Politics
I have been reading Richard D North's blog – once again – having been absent from it for an inexplicably long while. Whilst it is wide-ranging, it seems to me to be particularly helpful on the politics of climate change....
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A Good Move for the DfE's Sustainable Development Unit?
Perhaps I am the last person to become aware of this, but it strikes me as a positive move that the DfE Sustainable Development Unit has been moved within the DfE's Policy Impact Division with an objective to mainstream sustainability...
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Daphne and Belinda at the BBC
The BBC's Points West had what was billed as a good conservation story last night, and Daphne and Belinda were in the studio to tell us all about it. Belinda was an otter and Daphne was its "owner", or so...
