June 2015

  • EAUC asks some questions

    The EAUC has released its much anticipated business guide for university governors: Ten Reasons to Build Resilience into the Future of your University.  It had a long gestation.  The guide was developed by EAUC and Plymouth University, together with the Leadership Foundation for Higher...

  • Teaching about climate change: starting from Lawson

    I count myself blessed that I don't have to teach about climate change.  It's hard enough to take a coherent view yourself than to have to help others take their own stand on it.  And where to begin?  Normally, I'd...

  • Does being in 'quality nature' contribute best to human wellbeing?

    It is hard to pick up a newspaper or watch TV without coming across somebody official telling us to take more exercise.  The NHS, for example, recommends that someone my age has a mix of "moderate and vigorous-intensity aerobic activity every week...