Do co-operative schools (trust schools and academies) provide a democratic community based alternative? Mervyn Wilson, Principal of the Co-operative College – which has been at the heart of the development of co-operative schools - explains why co-operatives are proving so popular
… The rise and rise of co-op schools Mervyn Wilson | 6th August 2012 Comment Cooperative Schools Co-op Schools Education 2012 International Year Of …
Vocal school food campaigner Jackie Schneider on parent power, the importance of cooking from scratch and why free school meals would be the most cost-effective solution
… March 2010 Comment Food And Farming Health School Food Campaign Better Food For Schools Food For Life School Dinners Education jackieimage.jpg Vocal …
It’s mad that children living in poverty could be denied a healthy, hot school meal. It mustn’t be allowed to happen.
… School meals must be political priority … | 21st November 2018 Comment Brexit Education School Meal Turkey Twizzlers School Meals - State of the Nation 2018 It’s …
The National Forest Company has launched a plan to build capacity for outdoor learning in primary schools.
… capacity for outdoor learning in primary schools. Much has been made of the benefits of … One of my most vivid memories from primary school is sitting under a horse chestnut tree … learning, it is still not mainstream in our schools. Trees are thankfully not just …
Education is the best start to a sustainable life.
… | 12th January 2021 | Comment Sustainability School Education xryouth.jpg Education is the … teaching sustainability to new generations. School is where children go to learn about the … becoming more and more critical each year, schools need to get on board sooner rather …
Children are an indicator species for the health of our communities, writes Melissa Henry - and they are being forced off our streets by traffic. This adds further to traffic and pollution as children are driven everywhere, depriving them of exercise. It's time to break the vicious circle!
… fundamental shift in how our children get to school, particularly primary school. When I was a child in the early 70's, … of ten 7 to 9 year olds walked and cycled to school on their own. Now 8 out of ten are …
British taxpayers are forcing private health care and schooling onto many of the world's poorest countries including Nepal, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Mozambique, writes Nick Dearden - backing a huge neoliberal experiment whose only certain outcomes are high costs, low standards and massive corporate profits.
… Coca-Cola schools - British aid pushing corporate … Education Corporations Africa Nepal coca-cola-school-cut.jpg British taxpayers are forcing private health care and schooling onto many of the world's poorest …
Our prophet becomes a parish pariah for daring to challenge the orthodoxy of the educational system
… | 21st November 2008 Comment Education Schools Parish Council Civic Responsibilities … main cause of the crisis was that American schools were too large. It is a conclusion … Whatever their label, they all want bigger schools. The school attended by the jailed …
Next April the UK government proposes to increase taxes on self-consumed solar electricity installations on schools, offices, warehouses and factories by a whopping 6-8 times, write the STA and undersigned. This inexplicable move, which threatens a once thriving solar industry already on its knees, must be abandoned.
… Renewables Politics UK Finance Education school-solar-cut.jpg Next April the UK … solar electricity installations on schools, offices, warehouses and factories by … themselves with solar power. Businesses, schools and others with solar face a sharp 6-8 …
Children feel the threat of climate change and want to drive radical action to safeguard their future - so we should too, argues children's author SUE HAMPTON.
… 25th September 2018 Comment Recycled Children School Education Climate Change Activism … – even their survival.” As an author in school, I’ve noticed touching displays about … of children working to earn the title Eco School – usually by recycling and reducing …
Professor KIM SAMUEL says we should turn away from wifi, mobile phones and social media to put wellbeing at the heart of student care as the new school and university year begins
… at the heart of student care as the new school and university year begins I’ve been … Layard, a leading scholar at the London School of Economics, said recently. An essential feature of school life, he argued, should be to teach our …
Tom launches the Idler Academy to teach us good grammar, sadly lacking practical skills like carpentry and lastly, of course, merriment
… for some years. I’d read that the medieval school curriculum consisted of grammar, logic … inborn. I also had in mind the Epicurean school of Ancient Rome, where young men … is skolia, from where we derive our word for school. The point was that a good education …
Did you say ‘youth problem’?
It’s really the adult problem.
… it is; yet adolescents attending our local school are confronted with more than 100 teachers’ cars parked in the school grounds, as though global warming is a …
As Greece prepares for its election this weekend, the leftist Syriza coalition stands alone as a progressive force committed to rebuild democracy and civil society, writes Elati Pontikopoulou-Venieri - and opposed to the austerity, bigotry, corruption and violence offered by the mainstream parties. Thanks to Greece's young voters, it could just win.
… in neoliberalism I got into Athens Law School in 2011, at a time when an extended … in turn seen their free time shrink, as high schools increasingly resemble examination …
Teaching children about nature, and about how our economies meet our needs and impact on nature, is now essential.
… gave me a thank-you card when she left school. She said that I had inspired her to … Neoliberal education relies on divorcing school life from community life, but students … This Author Matt Carmichael is a secondary school teacher from Leeds. This essay is the …
The UK government has showered £500 million of its aid budget on 'partnerships' with global corporations that are meant to help the poor, writes Kevin Smith. Surprise - an independent assessment has found that the only ones to benefit were the companies themselves. This ideologically-driven farce must stop now!
… Politics Economics Education Development UK school children in sierra leone-cut.jpg The UK …
Univerisities' core mission is one of civilization and enlightenment, and that's incompatible with investing in fossil fuels that pose an existential threat to humanity and the planet, writes Cutler J Cleveland. It's is also financially prudent for for them to avoid sinking capital into future 'stranded assets' of unburnable carbon.
… Oil revenue channeled through charities, schools, and private donors in some Middle …