July 2010
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Not really sustainable after all
Defra announced yesterday that it is to stop funding the Sustainable Development Commission [SDC] from next April. The Secretary of State's written notice says: On sustainability ... we are determined to play the lead role across the whole of...
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Jury Service in Barcelona
In Barcelona last week sitting on a PhD jury – one of these public defences that are literally and metaphorically foreign to the UK. The thesis was in Catalan with a presentation to an audience of about 35 in that...
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MoD to set up Defence Awareness Programmes in Schools
The coalition government announced today that, from 2011, the Ministry of Defence is to set up programmes in order to raise awareness of defence issues within the UK; this will include work in schools. An MoD representative said "We...
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Bye Bye BSF
So, at last some sense in the disasterous Building Schools for the Future programme – it's being axed. Michael Gove told MPs: "Throughout its life it has been characterised by massive overspends, tragic delays, botched construction projects and needless bureaucracy"....
