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June 29, 2020
Today the government has announced that they plan to invest £1bn into a ten-year school retrofit and rebuilding plan, this comes after Teach the Future has been pushing for a Green Recovery for Education, a similar but significantly more ambitious 10-year retrofit plan.
June 29, 2020
Today Zamzam Ibrahim, NUS President, and I have written to Gavin Williamson, the Secretary of State for Education in response to today's announcement of £1bn school rebuilding and retrofitting investment.
June 28, 2020
The hopes and fears of the last year and a half of activism now seem like a distant memory. Sometimes I struggle to reconnect with those feelings - the urgency and excitement of being on the streets,
June 26, 2020
Today we wrote to John Swinney, the cabinet secretary of Education in the Scottish Parliament. We wrote to him asking for a recovery that creates green jobs and improves the mental health of young people.
June 17, 2020
Over 1,000 students have signed a letter delivered today to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, stating the case to retrofit the education estate to net-zero as part of our ongoing educational reform campaign.
June 6, 2020
Today Zamzam Ibrahim (NUS President) and I have written to Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Alok Sharma, Business Secretary, urging them to make substantial investment into net-zero schools as part of the government's fiscal stimulus plan.
June 4, 2020
My school started hosting an annual Green Week last year - an initiative driven by a biology teacher and a group of students - which got other classmates involved through activities ranging from food waste to fast fashion.
June 1, 2020
Over the past two months, our campaign has made a lot of progress. We’ve onboarded over 20 new youth volunteers, employed 6 campaign coordinators, and started a social media page (Follow us @_TeachTheFuture on Twitter!).
May 26, 2020
This month we have been astonished at the incredible amount of new organisations who want to support Teach the Future so today I thought we could share with you just a handful of snippets of blog posts by some of them!
May 22, 2020
Education is ultimately the key to empowering young people. Education is not simply about literacy and numeracy, it is more than mindless mumbling of facts or regurgitating rigid definitions. Instead, it is the means by which us as young people can craft stories,
May 18, 2020
In the past few weeks, myself and two other UKSCN/TtF volunteers (Jodie Bailey-Ho and Mary Skuodas) have begun recording and producing episodes of the brand new ‘Podcast for Planet’ podcast.
May 11, 2020
Today Zamzam Ibrahim (NUS President) and I have written to Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State for Education, urging him to propose investment into net-zero schools as part of the government's fiscal stimulus plan.