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My sustainable cuppa

August 28, 2019March 31, 2020Oxford Science Team
Photo of mug and teabag

By Sam Holyman As I settle down to my morning cuppa, one of the 100 million cups of tea that are likely to be drunk in the UK today [1], I wonder about how sustainable I am being, after I sling my used teabag straight into the black bin. Many of my friends collect their […]

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Improving Key Stage 3: Decisions, decisions, decisions!

September 26, 2017September 22, 2017Oxford Geography Team 2 Comments
Dunn's River Falls, Jamaica

As we begin the second year of new specifications, it feels as though the attention of many geography departments is once again focused on Key Stage 3, reflecting upon the change required here in order to best prepare our students for what we now know lies ahead. One of the biggest challenges I have found […]

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The Global Goals for Sustainable Development

November 16, 2015November 16, 2015Oxford Geography Team

On 25 September, leaders of the United Nations came together to finalize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – otherwise known as the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. These goals are the successors to the Millennium Developments Goals (MDGs), which ended in 2015. Were the MDGs successful? The MDGs encompassed 8 goals and 21 targets to […]

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