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The Spring Statement: What it Means for Climate Education

The Spring Statement: What it Means for Climate Education

Enfys Lloyd

March 26, 2025

On March 26th, the government announced its Spring Budget, setting out its economic priorities for the coming year. With education funding under pressure and climate action still an urgent necessity, many had hoped to see increased investment in climate education. However, the budget falls short of delivering the comprehensive support needed to equip students with the knowledge and skills required for a sustainable future.

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The Natural History GCSE: A Win for Nature Education, But More to Be Done

The Natural History GCSE: A Win for Nature Education, But More to Be Done

Freddie Emms

March 25, 2025

On Friday, the government announced that they would be going ahead with the Natural History GCSE, a great step towards embedding climate and nature into the curriculum and young people’s lives. But while this is an achievement worth celebrating, it’s not the end of the journey.

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The Curriculum and Assessment Review interim report: what it means for climate education

The Curriculum and Assessment Review interim report: what it means for climate education

Charlie Clift

March 19, 2025

Whilst sustainability and climate science is briefly mentioned in the Curriculum and Assessment Review's interim report, it is disappointingly lacking substance.

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UCL report supports Teach The Future’s call for interdisciplinary and action-focused climate education

UCL report supports Teach The Future’s call for interdisciplinary and action-focused climate education

Charlotte

March 10, 2025

Report on how best to embed sustainability into the education system aligns closely with Teach The Future’s own advocacy.

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UK's 2025 Nationally Determined Contribution: A huge leap for climate education

UK's 2025 Nationally Determined Contribution: A huge leap for climate education

Liv Marshall & Charlie Clift

February 20, 2025

As part of the Paris Agreements, each nation is required to produce a ‘Nationally Determined Contribution’ outlining how they plan to meet their climate action targets. These are updated every 5 years and the UK government recently published theirs, which is an exciting step forward in terms of climate education pledges, with some of the most direct references to its importance from government policy to date. Here’s a bit more information on what has been committed to!

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Youth-led review shows students want better climate education

Youth-led review shows students want better climate education

Liv Marshall

February 11, 2025

The Shadow curriculum and assessment review panel's interim report shows that concerns around climate education is a prevalent issue for young people.

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Climate Literacy Amongst School Leavers - Something needs to change

Climate Literacy Amongst School Leavers - Something needs to change

Nico King

December 23, 2024

Earlier this month, the Department of Education (DfE) published a report on recent school leavers’ climate literacy and the results show one thing - climate and nature education reform is imperative.

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Meet the Panellists - Shadow Curriculum and Assessment Review

Meet the Panellists - Shadow Curriculum and Assessment Review

Freddie Emms

December 12, 2024

From the seed of an idea sparked by our Teach the Future volunteers, the Shadow CAR is here, and we're excited to announce our amazing panellists! Meet them in this blog.

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Share Your Thoughts to Shape the Future of Education

Share Your Thoughts to Shape the Future of Education

Teach the Future

December 2, 2024

The Youth Shadow Panel is inviting children and young people across England to share your views on your experience of school or college.

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We’re making sure young people have a say in shaping education

We’re making sure young people have a say in shaping education

Teach the Future

November 20, 2024

We’ve come up with the idea to run a youth-led Shadow Curriculum and Assessment Review, supported by some incredible youth-led organisations.

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What Does the Autumn Budget Mean for Schools?

What Does the Autumn Budget Mean for Schools?

Liv Marshall

October 31, 2024

With new funding for school rebuilding, the Autumn Budget is a step forward—but more is needed. We’ll keep pushing for urgent investment in school decarbonisation, now more than ever.

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How the Department for Education's Curriculum and Assessment Review can go further

How the Department for Education's Curriculum and Assessment Review can go further

Finlay McIlwraith

October 29, 2024

4 actions the Department of Education CAR Review should take to Teach the Future.