{"id":6260,"date":"2015-03-02T07:50:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2015-03-02T07:50:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:50:51","slug":"the-eac-questions-our-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/03\/02\/the-eac-questions-our-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"The EAC Questions our Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the latest session from the House of Commons <em>Environmental Audit Committee<\/em> [EAC] (25 February) on Parliament <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliamentlive.tv\/Main\/Player.aspx?meetingId=17339\">TV<\/a>. \u00a0It was a poorly-attended event, with almost as many witnesses as MPs. \u00a0Those speaking\u00a0were:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nus.org.uk\">National Union of Students<\/a> \u2013 Jamie Agombar<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/about\/working\/speakers-parliamentary-placement-scheme\/\">Speaker's Parliamentary Placement Scheme<\/a> \u2013 Shay Miah<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukyouthparliament.org.uk\">UK Youth Parliament<\/a> \u2013 Ryan Bruce (member for Hartlepool)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mylifemysay.org.uk\">My Life, My Say<\/a> \u2013 Calin Epure<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Representation of UK youth was the common feature here, and it was good not to see the usual suspects \u2013 so well done EAC. \u00a0Between them, the witnesses covered quite a bit of sustainability ground.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck that at least one member of the committee (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinespelman.com\">Caroline Spelman<\/a>) spoke positively about how well the English national curriculum covers climate change. \u00a0You'll find her comments and the\u00a0exchange that followed around 1435 on the TV recording. \u00a0The impact of this was particularly strong given that someone from the BBC had made the same point to me the day before.<\/p>\n<p>This is a point that I do not often make myself (in fact I never do), but you can see why a particular\u00a0reading of the documentation might lead to that view \u2013 indeed, it is a reading that the government encourages; see, for example, its recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/02\/another-ministerial-stonewalling\/\">letter<\/a> to Steve Martin and myself about these very issues.<\/p>\n<p>There are, of course, a number of references to\u00a0climate change and related issues in the national curriculum, it's just that they don't cohere. \u00a0It's rather like just presenting a list of ingredients and expecting a decent cake to emerge \u2013 something that's only possible\u00a0with flair, experience and the right conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the latest session from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee [EAC] (25 February) on Parliament TV. \u00a0It was a poorly-attended event, with almost as many witnesses as MPs. \u00a0Those speaking\u00a0were: National Union of Students \u2013 Jamie Agombar...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}