Cultural Geography Blog

Earlier this week I headed for the Barbican to see Tangerine Dream again. This time it was the 50th anniversary of Phaedra. A really excellent evening with a long semi-improvised session. Someone shot a video of one of my favourite tracks from the evening. Not great quality but you can see the energy and interactions between Thorsten and the others, and you have the inevitable people who use the evening as a pub crawl... sit down for the duration!

An RGS-heavy day today alongside my teaching. This post is a cross-posting from my dedicated RGS blog - please go and check it out if you haven't already.   It shares all the news linked to my role as Vice President: Education. This curriculum review will be one of the things I'm interested in for the next year or so. Joined a very interesting Zoom call followed by some emails related to the opening of the RGS' request for your thoughts as part of the 'call for evidence' of the Francis Curriculum Review. That request is now open as of lunchtime today. New on the RGS website is this call for your thoughts ahead of the Curriculum and Assessment Review for England, which is being chaired by Becky Francis. At the moment, the review is in a phase where they call for evidence. This evidence will inform later stages of the consultation. The Government has launched an open call for evidence to inform its curriculum and assessment review for England, which is being chaired