Here’s a link to a feature about a new World Bank report on how Shanghai manages to be so high (1st!) in the global educational attainment tables. The key findings are: Shanghai’s performance on international tests is linked to a strong education system with efficient public financing. Shanghai’s policies and investments have created a great…
The Children & Nature Network has alerted the world to the UK’s problems with a feature on 2-year olds and their iPads and tablets. It begins … “Most kids start using tablets by the age of two and get a smartphone when they are seven, a survey has found. More than half of parents admitted they…
Bill Ballantine was a noted New Zealand marine biologist and grassroots activist who successfully promoting the establishment of “no-take” marine reserves, both in New Zealand and internationally. These unprecedented reserves are widely considered to be a critical means of protecting marine resources which are quickly being depleted around the globe. In a Conservation Blog, marine…
Here’s NAEE President, Bill Scott, with some thoughts from his University of bath blog on the reception last Tuesday involving NAEE members and those from NAAEE in the USA, and the members of the Global Environmental Education Project steering committee: The GEEP event last week ended with a reception at @Bristol hosted by the UK’s National Association for Environmental…
The Innovation Award for Environmental Educators recognizes outstanding nursery, primary and secondary school teachers who employ innovative approaches to environmental education and use the environment as a context for learning for their students. Up to two teachers from each region will be selected to receive this award. We know that this sounds too good to…
Environmental Education remains a strong feature of life in the USA. From April 17th to April 23rd, over 400,000 people celebrated environmental education at more than 3,000 events in every state and territory. This was part of the 12th annual National Environmental Education Week (EEWeek) – the country’s largest celebration of environmental education. This was organised by the National…
The North American Association for Environmental Education [NAAEE] has published a blog by NAEE President, Bill Scott, which looks forward to the meeting of the Global Environmental Education Partnership steering committee in Bristol next week. It begins: Between them, North America’s NAAEE and the UK’s NAEE have been in existence for over 100 years, and…
This is Alex White’s blog. It’s a diary about local wildlife in Oxfordshire. Alex has a passion for British wildlife, especially badgers and hares, and has been blogging since May 2013. This recent post My hair expecting only wash! Don’t is http://cialis4dailyusedosage.com/ SO everything control I more of discount pharmacy would that. An, I dry.…
Are you puzzled about what to teach about glyphosate – the world’s widest-used weedkiller? If so, then a piece on the BBC’s Gardeners Question Time [GQT] last week might leave you better informed. It began about 15 minutes into the programme, and provided (for us) a useful summary. However, last Thursday, EU experts failed again to take a decision…
To introduce the new Best Naturally Green (Biophilic) Scheme category, the Making Birmingham Greener & Healthier Awards were launched at the Small Heath EcoPark earlier this month. This new category is open to applications from people or organisations that have made space for nature and introduced schemes to protect wildlife and increase biodiversity; improved access…
A recent SEEd blog had a posting about the difficulties now inherent in the word nature, exploring a paper by Hannah Pitt, Research Associate at Cardiff’s Sustainable Places Research Institute. You can see Pitt’s article in The Conversation, here. We’ll be commenting on this in a day or so.
Although we missed screen-free week – too busy keeping the website up to date and all that – there’s no reason to despair, as part of every week could be screen-free if you try hard enough. That’s in addition to the screen-free time you have when you’re asleep, of course. If you need to, you can…