{"id":8034,"date":"2022-01-24T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2022-01-24T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:22:27","slug":"positive-dfe-noises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/01\/24\/positive-dfe-noises\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive DfE Noises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see, thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/naee.org.uk\/24th-january-2022\/\">NAEE weekly round up<\/a>, that the government has published the UK\u2019s 3rd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/government-publishes-uks-third-climate-change-risk-assessment\">Climate Change Risk Assessment<\/a>.\u00a0 On the website, the Minister for the School System, Baroness Barran said this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding a more sustainable future is vital and education has a role to play. \u00a0We want our nurseries, schools, colleges and universities to be cleaner and greener.\u00a0 As part of our Schools Rebuilding Programme, all new buildings have to be net-zero in operation and we\u2019re taking action to understand the risks and adapt our school estate to cope with climate change, water scarcity, along with heat and flood risks.\u00a0 We\u2019re also providing educational opportunities for young people to learn about the impacts of climate change, including how to adapt and tackle the issues we face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last sentence is worth noting as it goes father than DfE usually does. \u00a0Im fact, it's worth repeating:<\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re also providing educational opportunities for young people to learn about the impacts of climate change, including how to adapt and tackle the issues we face<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The national curriculum doesn't really focus on \"<em>impact \/ adapt \/ tackle<\/em>\" so it will be interesting to see what the department's current review of what might be done comes up with beyond more resources and training opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see, thanks to the NAEE weekly round up, that the government has published the UK\u2019s 3rd Climate Change Risk Assessment.\u00a0 On the website, the Minister for the School System, Baroness Barran said this: \u201cBuilding a more sustainable future is...<\/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-8034","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\/8034","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=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}