Blog
July 20, 2020
In England, we are pushing for an English Climate Emergency Education Bill, and in Scotland, we are pushing for a Scottish Climate and Biodiversity Emergency Bill. Both are very simple, and I thought it would be a good idea to explain them a bit here.
July 13, 2020
After our successful campaign launch last week, Teach the Future Scotland is looking to begin recruiting new volunteers very soon! We would love to expand our brilliant team as we continue forward to achieve systemic change in education.
July 10, 2020
This week was the official launch of Teach the Future Scotland, and we are happy to say it has been a big success!
July 7, 2020
Yesterday, Teach the Future Scotland sent a letter to Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland.
July 6, 2020
The day is finally here! Today we are launching our Teach the Future Scotland campaign! The Teach the Future England campaign was launched last October and for the last few months, a few of us from Scotland have been working on starting the campaign up here in the north.
July 3, 2020
Earlier this week, on Monday 28th June, it has been reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak hasrequested advice from every governmental departmentas to how to best support a "retraining revolution."
June 29, 2020
53 leading environment and education organisations have today written to the Chancellor calling for a Green Recovery for Education.
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.