Blog
September 15, 2025
Over the past few weeks, students from Teach the Future and beyond have been meeting online to discuss how the climate crisis shows up – or doesn’t – in our schools and colleges. We looked across a wide range of subjects to think about how climate education could be embedded more meaningfully.
September 13, 2025
In her A level EPQ project, Emily Hunt explores why connecting young people with nature through their education is vital - for wellbeing, learning, and the future of the planet.
September 11, 2025
The Department for Education has recently released a summary of findings on the three key climate risks: overheating, flooding, and water scarcity. The findings make clear the increasing disruption schools will experience in the coming years. Missed learning days are set to increase, and pupils’ ability to learn will be harmed if adaptive and preventative strategies are not put in place.
August 23, 2025
During June and July of this year, Teach The Future asked the independent company Norstat to conduct a survey with 1001 students from years 5 to 13 in England. Their responses were used as a basis to reflect the population of all school students in England.
July 17, 2025
Across the UK, whether or not you’re able to vote at 16 depends entirely on where you live. In Scotland and Wales, 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in local and devolved elections. In England and Northern Ireland, they can’t. This uneven system creates a postcode lottery for youth representation, where some young people have a say in decisions shaping their lives, and others are shut out completely.
July 14, 2025
On the 8th July, the Youth Shadow Panel released their final report of recommendations for the Government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review!
July 12, 2025
The Scottish Parliament recently passed the Education (Scotland) Bill replacing the qualifications body and establishing an independent schools inspectorate.
June 26, 2025
Recently, Norwegian oil giant Equinor, who has an 80% stake in Rosebank, released an online educational resource called EnergyTown. EnergyTown is designed for use in classrooms, and encourages young people to "balance" energy sources to build a thriving community – that survives off of renewable energy and fossil fuels. In our recent blog, we address the issue of fossil fuel giants trying to control climate education, and the dangers of greenwashing.
June 14, 2025
The Royal Meteorological Society's Curriculum for Climate Literacy is a great resource which should be leveraged to pressure the curriculum and assessment review to integrate climate and nature across the education system.
June 12, 2025
Yesterday on the 11th of June, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced the government’s Spending Review which outlines day-to-day and capital (e.g specific projects like HS2) spending, but what does this mean for schools?
May 23, 2025
The Fenlands - a unique and ecologically vital landscape in East Anglia - offer an exceptional opportunity to bring sustainability and place-based learning into UK classrooms. As the Department for Education reviews how to embed climate and nature education across subjects, our friends over at Fens for Kids explain why it’s crucial the Fenlands are included.
May 22, 2025
“People in the real world are disgusted by the Energy Secretary’s obsessive pursuit of net zero” , said John Lamont MP, Conservative member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk at Prime Minister's questions on 14th May. But what gives? Five years ago, tackling the climate crisis was a common consensus shared by all mainstream political parties, yet the last month has come to show that this is no longer the case, but why is this and what can we do to stop it?