July 2013

As I noted in a PS to my original blog about weec7, the event culminated in the Call of Marrakech, which ENSI desribes as ... "giving express to concerns and visions for the future of Environmental Education and Education for...

I wrote the other day about the funding letter from Hefce to the HEA.  What's not in the letter, but on the Hefce website, is this text about a forthcoming review of the HEA: In the light of the changes since the last...

Positive news, it would seem, on the national climate curriculum change [sic] front.  I'm grateful to NAEE's Sarah Simmons for the alert to the Guardian on Friday which reported: Michael Gove abandons plans to drop climate change from curriculum: climate change will...

Here's a cheery video from Cambridge looking at the impact of one of their green initiatives.  But where are the academics? If you follow the on-screen credits, and freeze the last screen, you see who's involved – and not so...

I commented earlier in the year on the new Stonehenge – well, the new super-English-Heritage-at-its-very-best visitor centre, which I think we should be calling the Neocentre.  As it nears completion, I'm told by the ever-reliable and insightful, World Heritage Trails...

Thanks to an eagle-eyed colleague in China (who spends too much time web-surfing), I got to hear of this last week.  It seems to exist only on Facebook as far as I can see.  It says: The UK Department for...

Slightly fizzy wine flowed in Elsevier's offices last week celebrating the rise in the impact factor of the Journal of Cleaner Production from 2.727 in 2011 to 3.398 in 2012.  Or so I infer from the excited report that the...