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Jury Service in Barcelona
In Barcelona last week sitting on a PhD jury – one of these public defences that are literally and metaphorically foreign to the UK. The thesis was in Catalan with a presentation to an audience of about 35 in that...
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MoD to set up Defence Awareness Programmes in Schools
The coalition government announced today that, from 2011, the Ministry of Defence is to set up programmes in order to raise awareness of defence issues within the UK; this will include work in schools. An MoD representative said "We...
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Bye Bye BSF
So, at last some sense in the disasterous Building Schools for the Future programme – it's being axed. Michael Gove told MPs: "Throughout its life it has been characterised by massive overspends, tragic delays, botched construction projects and needless bureaucracy"....
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The Organic Garden Educator's Dilemma
You are an organic garden educator working with teachers and young people in schools and communities in order to help them to ... [i] develop a positive attitude towards getting involved in gardening including food growing; [ii] acquire gardening skills that...
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Zero Carbon Britain – a treat in store
In Portcullis House the other night at the launch of Canolfan Dechnoleg Amgen's second Zero Carbon Britain 2030 report. Pretty gloomy stuff and nothing about education in the presentations. Those speaking certainly seemed cheerful in looking forwards (backwards more like) to the...
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Half a Lifetime ago ...
Half a Lifetime ago I had my first paper published in School Science Review. I was still a schoolteacher and it was a reflection on reflection (of sorts) on practice. Some 35 years later, my second will shortly come out...
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Update on Writing to the DfE
UPDATE: It took about 3 weeks to get a response – which is what they promise, more or less. But all it said was that there was no news, yet. Meanwhile, I've written again – at SEEd's behest – this...
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Bath Plummets in Green League
For the third year running, the University has dropped in the People & Planet Green league. From a dizzy 57th= in 2009, we are now 77th=, just scraping a 2.2, sharing this fame with Cardiff, Leicester, Westminster and Sunderland. ...
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Another Day, Another Quango ...
On June 2nd, as the DfE website notes, it's the GTC whose time has come to an end. Apart from its own, whose tears will be shed I wonder? There's a useful list of (and comment on) what seem quite...
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Sustainable Development – carved up in a different way
In my recent visit to Sweden and the GRESD network (See Blog Postcard from Sweden) there was a presentation which threw new light on the issue of how one might think about SD without resorting to separating it out into...
