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We're campaigning for Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and the Department for Education to implement our 4 specific policy asks:
You can read our full asks for more details. We hope that these asks will achieve our vision of broad climate and environmental education.
Our Climate Education Bill (in England and Wales) is currently making its way through parliament. If passed, it would integrate sustainability throughout the curriculum. For more information on the bill and what it would mean, read our briefing for MPs.
You can get in touch with us at england@teachthefuture.uk.
Charlie Clift
"Surely, not withstanding the fact that we are tiny, fragile things, a moat of dust, orbiting 1 star amongst 400 billion, we must consider ourselves and our world to be inconceivably valuable." - Professor Brian Cox
Eleanor AM
‘Now we’re going to do the most human thing of all: attempt something futile with a ton of unearned confidence and fail spectacularly!’ – Michael, ‘The Good Place’ 2×10
Evie Rouxel
‘Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet’ Alice Walker
Jamie Agombar
Groucho Marx. "Why should I care about future generations? What have they ever done for me?"
Jamie Burrell
Jodie Bailey-Ho
“if the kids are united then we'll never be divided”
Josh Tregale
There is no right way to protest because that's what protest is. It can't be considered 'right' by the system that it's protesting. - Trevor Noah
Jude Daniel Smith
Every man is guilty of the good he did not do' - Voltaire
Karis Mcintyre
“The secret to doing anything is believing you can do it” - Bob Ross
Natasha Pavey
“For there is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” - Amanda Gorman
Niamh Crisp-O'Brien
"All I know is that I’m here. And I’m alive. And I’m not alone." - Solitaire, Alice Oseman
Phoebe L. Hanson
"Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where your heart is and where your heart is, is where your treasure lies" from the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Quinn Runkle
Dr Martin Luther King Jr "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Scarlett Westbrook
"Cause you never think that the last time is the last time. You think there will be more. You think you have forever, but you don't." -Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
Thiziri Boussaid
"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind. - Taylor Swift"
An outline of the changes our Climate Education Bill would enact regarding education in England and Wales.
Our full asks we want to see from the current UK government. As education in the UK is a devolved matter, these asks apply primarily just to education in England - we have separate policy asks for education in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Department for Education released their final version of their Climate Change and Sustainability Strategy in 2022. This is our formal response.
Report on the estimated costs of achieving Net Zero in Primary and Secondary Schools in the United Kingdom. Prepared by Energise (pro-bono) for Teach the Future. September 2023.
Teach the Future responded to a letter recieved from Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, which we found to be out of touch with the reality of the education system.
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April 22, 2021
On the week commencing the 12th of April Teach the Future ran a week of action. Did you see our volunteers around the country? Or our projections onto parliament?
April 6, 2021
An update on Teach The Future England's local government engagement with pledges.
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March 14, 2021
The education system consistently caters for the upper classes by ignoring the issues that predominantly affect working class students. We need an education that prepares us for our futures, and is inclusive and supportive of everyone.
March 7, 2021
Climate change may not seem as imperative and challenging to those who are fortunate not have felt it's adverse affects yet. World hunger is already a major humanitarian crisis; and will only be exasperated by climate change.
January 31, 2021
Toxic waste. Industrial liquid sludge. These are not words we want to associate with schools. However, the stark reality is, there are schools where there is toxic waste, hazardous materials, and unknown waste lying underneath their very floors.
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 3, 2020
Yesterday, The Guardian published an article entitled ‘Ofsted chief resists calls to make England school curriculum more diverse’ reporting on Amanda Spielman’s speech launching Ofsted’s Annual report. In her speech, Spielman argued against our calls for reform of the education system in response to the climate crisis.
November 9, 2020
There is now considerable (though by no means universal) agreement with the idea that young people in schools should have an entitlement to learn in some detail about the climate problems we face, and what they individually and collectively might do in terms of adaptation and mitigation. In what follows, NAEE Chair of Trustees, Bill Scott, explores some of the issues using material that NAEE has recently presented at conferences.
September 23, 2020
"Teach the Future recommends accelerated and consistent delivery of investment into the energy efficiency and carbon reduction of school buildings in the CSR and presents the argument, methodology, and costing for a zero-carbon education estate."
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.