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Climate risk finance heresy
If you click here you can watch a 16 minute talk by Stuart Kirk (HSBC's Head of Responsible Investment / Head of Research & Insights) at an FT Moral Money symposium in May. He was suspended by HSBC for his...
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How green will the new prime minister be
Unless you've been hibernating you're probably aware that there is a competition for a replacement prime minister. I've been trying to hear what the contenders have to say about their policies towards energy, climate and biodiversity issues (etc). Not much...
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Tendering at the DfE
Tendering for the DfE's über high profile climate leaders award and its nature park scheme would not seem to have been the roaring success that the department hoped. At the deadline, there was only one bid. There were nearly two...
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DfE ministers come and go and come again
There's a new team at the DfE. After all the recent resignations new ministers are in place, although one who resigned seems to be back, and the one who never resigned is still there. Three are new, including the Secretary...
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Coloeus monedula at Stonehenge
WWF International is looking for both a new Director General and a new Chair for its Board of Directors. Both posts are demanding. The latter, though expecting a 30% commitment of time, is unremunerated. Sound a bit like being Chair...
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No one at home at the DfE
Five ministers have left their posts in the DfE in the last 24 hours. One (Zahawi) was promoted sideways and upwards to the Treasury where one of his first jobs will likely be to enforce spending restrictions on the DfE...
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Going, going Larkin for OCR
I could go on and on about the poems that OCR might choose to illustrate and explore the human (rest of) nature relationship, but I'm just adding one before I stop. What to choose? Something by a dead white bloke...
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Poetry across time at OCR
The fuss over OCR's decisions about which poets to feature in its English Literature GCSE seems to have died down since I first wrote about it last week. In the light of the changes made (fewer poems now by dead...
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OCR, Hopkins and the Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins has been excluded from the OCR GCSE English Literature list. Happily, Hopkins wrote brilliantly about nature and so is a good candidate to be part of the new natural history GCSE syllabus. One possible choice would seem...
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DfE puts OCR on the naughty step
It's quite something for a secretary of state for education to accuse an exam board of cultural vandalism, but that happened yesterday when Nadhim Zahawi commented on OCR's decision to update its poetry anthology by dropping its only examples of poems by...
