Bayer Crop Science has started a £10,000 fund with Farming and Countryside Education (FACE) to help increase training opportunities for teachers wanting to work with farmers within the education system. FACE says that this could lead to over 12,000 more children having some food or farming content within their lesson plans, and an extra 1750 children taking…
Do you get the ESD ZOOM newsletters from UNESCO? These are essential reading if you want to keep up with ESD, the GAP, etc round the world. Here is a link to the most recent one in January. In this, the highlight was UNESCO seeking nominations for the third edition of the UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development…
The UKFIET conference takes place sometime soon in Oxford. Its theme for 2017 is Learning and Teaching for Sustainable Development: curriculum, cognition and context The conference blurb begins: What is taught and learned form the backbone of education’s contribution to sustainable development. It is through the construction of curricula that knowledge, skills, attitudes and values are…
Click here for an update from the Freshwater Habitats Trust. There’s a feature on the Trust’s collaboration with Thames Water. The aims of the project are to: discover fantastic freshwater habitats, that are free from pollution and great for wildlife uncover for the first time the extent of nutrient pollution facing freshwater life today Schools can…
Yorkshire-based Warm.co.uk says that in an age of rising energy prices and diminishing energy security, it’s time that young people are taught that gas and electricity are not finite resources and that heating has become a hot topic. “We’ve become used to warm comfortable homes, and young people need to be taught that heating is one of…
As every great teacher knows, a picture is worth a thousand words. But the story you end up with depends on the picture you pick. Get it right and you can stimulate new perspectives, behaviours and emotions. Get it wrong and you might reinforce negative stereotypes, leave people feeling helpless, or create a totally false…
Meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in Initial Teacher Education in the UK: Progress and Opportunities, was the focus of a seminar held last Friday, 10th March, at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. The purpose was for key teacher educators in UK ITE institutions to: Share progress on Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in ITE…
Here’s a link to Natural England’s latest round up of recent and relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale initiatives, resources and news items. This supports the Strategic Research Groups for Learning in Natural Environments and Outdoors for All to develop better coherence and collaboration in research and to improve links between research, policy…
Click here to see what the British Trust for Ornithology is doing. You’ll find features on Avian flu, wind farms, the bird track app, cuckoo migration and details on conferences and meetings. There’s also a section on the BTO’s current surveys … BirdTrack Breeding Bird Survey Garden BirdWatch House Martin Survey Nest Record Scheme Ringing…
Do you know where your clothes were made? As recently covered by an article in The Observer, researchers from the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (based in the Netherlands) found wages below the full legal minimum at factories in Myanmar supplying brands such as Sports Direct, Henri Lloyd, New Look, H&M, Muji, Pierre Cardin and Karrimor,…
Creating a buzz: how UK schools are embracing beekeeping is an article in the Guardian which discusses how teachers are discovering that beehives can provide exciting opportunities to learn outside the classroom. This is how it begins: “We know that things are bad with bees right now. In the past decade, they have been disappearing…
The Marine Conservation Society is promoting a scheme to put a deposit on plastic bottles. It says: Plastic is filling our oceans and littering our beaches. It’s lethal to wildlife and is even entering our food chain. Worryingly, we don’t yet know the full effects this will have on us. All of us need to take…