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January 28, 2021
More than a million people in 50 countries took part in the survey, with almost half the participants aged between 14 and 18. The poll was organised by the United Nations Development Programme in conjunction with the University of Oxford. Around 1.22 million people of all genders, ages, and educational backgrounds took part, but with significant numbers of younger people (around 550,000 people aged 14-18).
January 24, 2021
It’s a new year, which means new year resolutions. We are now one year into the ‘decade of action’ to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, however, more than ever, 2021 is being named the ‘turning point’ in climate change history. But why 2021, and not any other year before or after that?
January 21, 2021
President Joe Biden's new administration is reportedly planning an "all-of-government" approach to tackling climate change, which is precisely what we've been calling for in Teach the Future - but will this approach include climate education?
January 17, 2021
Turning over a new leaf. There is something incredibly profound and hopeful in our language at the start of a new year. Something that I don’t believe carries over to the way we talk about climate change.
January 14, 2021
What Teach the Future UK has been able to do this year has been incredible, but we’re not the only group working to improve climate education...
January 10, 2021
I grew up in California with wildfires being a very real fear. My sisters and I would sleep with our shoes on and our packed bags at the ready...
January 7, 2021
Hello, Readers! My name is Jude Daniel Smith.
December 31, 2020
2020 has been a whirlwind of a year but despite everything Teach the Future has made progress across the four nations of the U.K and started an international campaign.
December 28, 2020
Climate change education in Scotland’s classrooms is vital to equip younger generations with skills to combat the crisis
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December 27, 2020
Since the rise of the youth climate movement, we have been declared inspirations, role models and future politicians. This is not what we want or are meant to be. We are not here as inspirations or people to push the responsibility onto. We are not the future generation who will solve this problem.
December 23, 2020
According to Joe Brindle, campaign coordinator at Teach the Future, this is more than good sense: it is vital. “If we want to transition to net zero, then we need a generation of students – and then workers – who understand the problems we are facing and can contribute to the solutions,” he says. According to the campaign’s research, however, “just 4 per cent of pupils feel that they know a lot about climate change, while 75 per cent of teachers feel that they haven’t received adequate training to be able to educate students about the subject.”
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December 20, 2020
Teach the Future Scotland are sending an open letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills - John Swinney MSP - in response to the Scottish Government's recent announcement of plans to construct twenty-two new schools across the country and retrofit three existing schools.