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…
With the appointment of Gillian Keegan as Secretary of State for Education, it is said that the government has signalled its wish to reform 11 to 19 education, and there is talk of a baccalaureate style approach with greater emphasis on work-related learning. The Times ran an Education Commission over the last couple of years…
UCET – the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers, has published an analysis of DfE support for the continuing professional development of teachers. The report was developed over a ten-month period building on extensive consultation with over 50 professionals directly involved with CPD provision for teachers in England. It seeks to highlight the strengths, weaknesses…
Here’s the latest 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…
Sophie Roe, writing in The Inkcap Journal has a feature on the botanist Margaret Bradshaw who is 96 years old, “and something of a legend among botanists”. For the last seven decades, she has made an obsessive study of the rare flowers of Teesdale, and there is no one alive today who better understands the…
Here are a few of the COP-related viewpoints from this morning’s The Conversation: COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL; Richard Taylor, UCL; Simon Chin-Yee, UCL – The agreed loss and damage fund was a breakthrough in an otherwise inconclusive conference. COP27 flinched on phasing out…
Here are four contrasting newspaper reviews of the ending of COP27. The Times At least the Cop27 climate change conference in Egypt did not end in stalemate and recriminations. After frantic efforts by officials working beyond the deadline and important concessions by the richer countries, a text was agreed that sets up a fund to…
EAUC, together with Mock COP and the University and College Union, has launched a short film showing how the climate crisis is an education crisis and how it already affecting people in both the Global South and Global North. EAUC says that the film encourages education staff and students to work together to call for…
We’ve covered Ronald Rovers’s views from time to time in our blog. Here is his latest contribution. He covers books he recommends and those he doesn’t. Top very readable books : ( not necessarily in that order….) The Upside of Down – Thomas Homer-Dixon Great book, making connections between problems and tensions in society (…
Steve Hurley writes the Explaining Science blog, and we have featured his work irregularly over the years. He has been writing this week about COP 27 (as he did about COP 26). His post begins: “Over the next few weeks much of the world’s media will be focused on Sharm El Sheik in Egypt, where…