Our second GlosGeog (Gloucestershire’s local Geographical Association [GA] branch) event for Term 3 was aimed at students in Years 9 to 13 and focused on ‘green skills and geography‘. This is a hotly discussed theme at present. Our speaker session proved popular as a result, with students and teachers attending virtually from 18 schools across the UK. Jill Mitchell and Jonny …
geography southwest’s annual conference comes to UWE!
How has a year passed by? It was time for geography southwest’s annual conference, once again hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England (UWE) on the outskirts of Bristol (https://www.uwe.ac.uk/courses/find-a-course/courses-by-subject/geography-and-environmental-management). I had offered to support the organisers, Dr Harry West, Simon Ross and John Davidson, with welcoming delegates and registration, …
The Education Show
Birmingham (16th to 18th March 2017)
Despite it being the Gold Cup at Cheltenham, a Friday and endless roadworks on the M5 with speed restrictions in place, my journeys to and from the NEC were bearable. It was not Young Voices calling this time around, but The Education Show (http://www.education-show.com/)! I try to visit annually or bi-annually to keep abreast with developments within the realm of …