Our Chair of Trustees, William Scott, has been reading the Foundation for Education Development’s [FED] National Education Consultation Report [2023]: towards a long-term plan for education. It’s fair to say that he’s FED up despite being impressed. Having seen a lot of the FED’s prior output, I did not open this document with any great…
Brett Girven is the principal of the Arbor School Dubai with more than ten years of experience in the Middle East away from his native New Zealand. This link is to a guest blog he posted on the GESS – Global Educational Supplies and Solutions – website, detailing how his school embedded sustainability in his…
Here’s a further update from Natural England by way of relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from the UK and abroad, with a focus on schools, education and learning. This supports the Strategic Research Network for People and Nature to develop better coherence and collaboration…
We’ve noted before the lack of interest from the Green Alliance in the work of schools, but that does not mean that schools should not be interested in what the Green Alliance does, as much of its work has a bearing on curriculum matters in upper secondary schools. Its Inside Track blog raises a range…
Here’s an update from Natural England by way of relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from the UK and abroad, with a focus on schools, education and learning. This supports the Strategic Research Network for People and Nature to develop better coherence and collaboration in…
The work that is featured in The Conversation is regularly covered in NAEE’s output because of its relevance to what we are interested in, and because of its academic standing. Last week, It’s Imagine Newsletter covered climate change education in schools. Here are links to the ideas it featured: How should we teach climate change…
Today’s post by regular contributor, Richard Jurin, is a follow up to a recent post. Before his retirement, Richard led the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, where he launched a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. As ever, with our blogs, the…
A while back NAEE published a feature on ways of making steel without using so much carbon. It noted that currently steel production makes up around 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions. The article explored the use of hydrogen as the reductant instead of coke. To be ‘green’, of course, the hydrogen has to be…
Each week subscribers to The Times can receive an environment-themed email newsletter. This one is about preparations for COP 28 in Dubai. It’s reproduced in full here with acknowledgement. As we reach the halfway point between Cop27 and Cop28, the prospects for success at the summit in Dubai this December are looking increasingly uncertain. Yesterday…
This is a link to an April blog by Neil Kitching which explores the greenhouse effect. Neil blogs at carbonchoices.uk and can be contacted at carbonchoices@gmail.com His content is freely available for sharing with an acknowledgement of the source. This is how Neil begins: “My thoughts on why things might be even worse if there was no…