Empowering Young Voices – COP28 Students Declaration
Following reflections, comments and contributions at a Mock COP28 session celebrated in June 2023, Wellington College, Edgbarrow School, Holme Grange School, Charters School, and Wokingham Youth Council have shared [...]
The tide has turned – or so it seems….
There are many indications that teachers are seeing the need to engage in school with sustainability and climate change. And by sustainability I mean environmental, social and economic. Recent [...]
SEEd Young Changemakers launch for secondary schools/colleges in Sept 2023
A hub of six Gloucestershire and Bristol schools/colleges are launching the SEEd Young Changemakers programme at a joined event this September. Some 250 students will begin to identify their [...]
SEEd Young Changemakers 2023 – Perfect Partners!
SEEd has selected over 20 businesses, charities and community organisations of all sizes to bring real life examples of organisations with an environmental and sustainability focus to the participating schools [...]
SEEd at the 13th Festival of Education 2023 at Wellington College
Having designed and hosted the first ever Sustainability Strand at the festival of Education at Wellington College in 2022, SEEd returned this year with our ‘Cabinet of Sustainability Curiosities’ [...]
Secure the foundations then build – why it is a good thing that OFSTED aren’t yet assessing schools on sustainability
By Dr Morgan Phillips, Head of Education and Youth Engagement, Global Action Plan On May 31st, the Department for Education (DfE) will release two new ITT’s for contracts relating to [...]
The transformation of education? – Four desiderata critical to real change
By Stephen Sterling, Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education, University of Plymouth and IAU Senior Fellow This blog was first published as an article in Horizons, vol 27, no 2. pp21-22, [...]
Sparking Sustainability Conversations with Pupils
Beyond COP21 symposium at Rendcomb College We love speaking to young people of all ages to find out what sustainability means to them. This month we spent a day [...]
COP and climate change education: what happened at COP27 and what happens next?
Link to original post: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2022/11/23/climate-change-education-what-happened-at-cop27-and-what-happens-next/ Dr Kate Greer, Prof. Nicola Walshe Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society Corresponding author: kate.greer@ucl.ac.uk So, [...]
Don’t Do Sustainability
By Brett Girven, Principal at The Arbor School Dubai "Brett contacted me probably 4 or so years ago. The Arbor School in Dubai was newly built and with an environmental [...]
Is carbon offsetting merely a form of greenwashing?
“You may be aware of the current discussion and controversies around ‘greenwashing’. Well we are delighted to post a journalistic piece from a young person, Claudia Goodman, who is an [...]
A New Year – A New Approach
Ann Finlayson, SEEd Executive Chair There is an interesting thread currently on LinkedIn on why Rishi Sunak has said he wants Maths to be compulsory until 18. Thanks Cindy Forde, [...]
The slow road to transforming education
SEEd Director Ann Finlayson takes a look at progress on education for sustainability. It is the year of COP 26, and less than 2 months before COP [...]
What would a meaningful application of the new DfE Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy look like?
Dr Leigh Hoath is an Associate Professor at Leeds Trinity University. She leads Science Education in the Institute of Childhood and Education. The launch of the DfE’s Sustainability and Climate [...]
Learning and Change…
New SEEd Chair of Trustees Cathy d'Abreu reflects on the challengesof bringing about positive change. Drumbeats for change There are so many drums beating for change globally that we can be [...]
A strategy for climate change education, but what next?
Ann Finlayson, Executive Chair SEEd I was thinking after the launch at the Natural History Museum for DfE’s Strategy for Sustainability and Climate Change that many, many people have views [...]
Education for Social Action on the Climate / Sustainability Emergency
David Woollcombe, founder and President of Peace Child International, give his view on the DfE's new Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy. If, like me, you have waited since the Rio [...]
A Teachers response to the DfE’s new Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy
Teacher and author Jonny Friend shares his views on the Department for Education's new Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy... OK, let’s start with the positive….that the DfE now has a [...]
