Blog
June 13, 2021
Since late 2019, Teach The Future UK has been fighting and advocating for comprehensive education on the climate crisis and sustainability for all students but when we say this, we want it to go beyond simply the sciences and geography. For a successful education on the climate crisis we need to dig deeper into the social and political implications of climate change - Climate Justice.
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June 7, 2021
The key moments and achievements of TtF Scotland so far...
June 6, 2021
Although the Thatcher government’s Section 28 has been off the statute books since 2003, many places in the UK are still opposed to LGBT representation in the classroom. In fact, even though the UK ranked 9th in a list of Europe’s most LGBT-friendly countries, there were 3,000 sexual orientation hate crimes recorded last year in London alone.
June 3, 2021
COVID-19 has had an impact on the Scottish education system not seen since world war 2 (Varkey Foundation, 2021). The exam fiasco of 2020 and the loss of learning across the country illustrates the lack of resilience in our education system. Our world is changing in many ways, and we need an education system that will change with it, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need to be able to live and work in an uncertain environment.
June 1, 2021
Teachers say climate change content in the national curriculum is currently "limited" and should be extended.
May 30, 2021
The terms ‘plant-based’, ‘vegan’ and ‘vegetarian’ have been becoming increasingly common in recent years. A lot of people have decided to make the change to their diets for various reasons, one of them being because of the environment. The global West’s high consumption of meat and dairy is partly fuelling climate change, and switching to a plant-based diet is one of the best ways an individual can reduce their own carbon footprint.
May 27, 2021
How the arts can help make climate activism more accessible.
May 23, 2021
Power. What do you think of when you think of power? Perhaps the government. Perhaps a leader, a CEO, a headteacher or maybe something or someone completely different. There is no one set definition of power yet it is something that many wish to achieve. Why? Why waste time on achieving a concept? Because with power comes the ability to make change, to impact something you disagree with, to gain the attention and respect needed to achieve your goals. There are many routes to gaining power but the most successful, the original route is education. Education ensures that those who are unaware, learn. That those who do not wish to listen, do. It is an influential device that pushes people to achieve whatever they wish.
May 20, 2021
The climate crisis is no longer a thing of the past, a myth that doesn’t exist or a possibility that has an unlikely outcome. The climate crisis is happening now. From the 2020 Australian wildfires that grabbed the attention of people from across the globe to the more recent Texas freeze earlier this year, we can no longer deny that ever changing temperatures are starting to hit us harder.
May 13, 2021
“77% of students say that thinking about climate change makes them anxious and in the UK, as many as 1 in 6 young people will experience an anxiety condition”...
May 10, 2021
April 30th marked President Joe Biden’s first one hundred days in American office. In a crisis, this time period in the United States is even more important, as the President is under the watchful eye of the public, and Biden’s ideologies and style is completely different to his predecessor.
May 2, 2021
Over the past months, members of Teach the Future Scotland have been lobbying the five key parties in Scotland for the inclusion of our asks and policy recommendations in each parties manifestos. This is a milestone for our campaign as it means we can effectively hold the government to account on these policies.I will go and rank each party on the inclusion of our asks in their manifesto as well as the general embedding of climate education.