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The end of the line for HS2. What next?
We all know that the infrastructure improvements section of Changing Economic World at GCSE is getting harder to teach with the textbook examples hugely out-of-date or never went ahead. In the last...
Hopeful Geographies 4: Women in Data & Women's Health
Data is the lifeblood of geography at A-level. I have to confess to a girl crush on @_HannahRitchie who is Deputy Editor of Our World in Data and if you’re not following her Substack can I suggest...
At A-Level we are asked to consider thresholds or tipping points in Earth's systems. We are used to talking about thresholds in terms of climate change, such as accelerating ice melt and positive...
Hopeful Geographies 2: ‘Joined Up’ Conservation Works in Southern Africa
Last week The Guardian reported that African elephant populations in southern Africa have stabilised after many decades of decline. Further, the science shows elephant populations able to migrate...
2023 - A Year of Extreme Weather
Most of us started back at work today - and much of that 'Christmas holiday chat' will have focused on the state of the weather over the two week break. I live in Buxton so am no stranger to...
Hopeful Geographies in 2024
Happy New Year to you and all your students. And in the Geography Department, in 2024, I think us teachers ought to mean it. In an excellent opening lecture at last year’s GA conference Jenny...
How the Climate Crisis Could Impact Health Locally and Globally
Last week the health impact of global environmental change was in the headlines as officials met to discuss the issue at COP28 in Dubai - a COP first. This week the story has become a local one,...
Global Heating and the Unintended Consequences of Global Governance
Studying human interventions in the carbon cycle? Here’s an update you might have missed, as it was publicised in August. Scientists have discovered that we have been carrying out a massive...
Sycamore Gap: Place Imageability & Place Meaning
Yesterday the news broke of the loss of a 300-year old tree that stood on in the so-called Sycamore Gap on Hadrian’s Wall, apparently felled by vandals. I use the term ‘broke’ in part because I...
UK Infrastructure Developments - Time for an Update!
Most of us teaching the AQA GCSE spec will agree that the UK section of Changing Economic World is a thorn in our sides and very tricky to make remotely engaging to students. And then you add in...
Space and Place - A-Level Changing Places
Having met my Year 12s for the first time last week we launched ourselves into the Changing Places unit of the specification. We have learned that a space is a place without meaning, whereas a...
A-Level Geography Results Analysis 2023
Grading of students this summer was trailed as being similar to that of students in 2019, prior to the pandemic. In fact, across all subjects A results were up, from 7.7% to 8.9%, as were A-A...
Educational rationale: Decision making exercises are common in GCSE courses, notably AQA, and also included in some A Level courses too. It is a critical thinking skill held in high regard by...
With record-breaking temperatures across most of southern Europe, but downpour after downpour across the UK, lots of students may be questioning whether climate change is anything to be worried...
Geography News Quiz: 7th July 2023
Here's our final weekly 'Geography in the News' Quiz for this academic year.
Geography News Quiz: 30th June 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
COP26 saw world leaders pledging to end deforestation in an attempt to fight climate change and protect biodiversity. But last year global tree loss surged, with an area of tropical rainforest the...
Geography News Quiz: 23rd June 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
Geography News Quiz: 16th June 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
Geography News Quiz: 9th June 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
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