Just over 10 years ago I wrote an article entitled 'The Global Education Terminology Debate: Exploring some of the issues' which appeared in the Sage Handbook of Research in International Education (and was updated as a second edition in 2015). The main audience for the handbook has been those in the international school/education world where ideas of 'international mindedness' or 'global consciousness' are well-established - the chapter served as an introduction to the devel

Since their launch in September 2015, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) have been increasingly taken up by schools as both an educational theme and learning tool. A growing number of teachers around the world are seeing the SDGs, also known as the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, as a powerful and engaging theme inside and outside of the classroom. There have been a number of initiatives, policies and organisations pushing for greater awareness of the 17 S

Tomorrow is Red Nose Day day in the UK, where huge numbers of us engage in activities we perhaps normally wouldn’t. In the evening we sit down to watch Comic Relief strike that difficult balance between entertainment, fundraising and awareness-raising. Comic Relief describes #rednoseday as uniting 'the entire nation in trying to make a difference to the lives of thousands of people across Africa and the UK who are facing terrible injustice or living in desperate poverty’. But

On Friday, Planet launched Planet Explorer Beta, an online tool that allows users to browse geospatial data through time and track changes across the globe. The introduction of a time axis is of great importance and it is being aptly marketed as ‘your planetary time machine’ – ‘ours’ because it is free for personal and non-profit use*. Planet, who recently acquired Google’s Terra Bella satellite imaging business, has the largest fleet of satellites in human history and its co