Bill Scott
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Bill Scott3 April 2013
UNECE spurs economic growth across the continent
I'm pleased to report that those selfless UNECE folk have been travelling round Europe again, staying in nice hotels, in order to instruct the rest of us in how to live sustainably. But we should not carp! Indeed, our collective...
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Bill Scott1 April 2013
A very short introduction to ... education
A spokesperson for the Department of Education, Dr Ratko O'Malley, confirmed today that the DfE is to buy 800,000 copies of Gary Thomas's new OUP publication, Education: A Very Short Introduction, which was published last week. These will be distributed...
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Bill Scott27 March 2013
Free the QAA 5,000
I sat through a briefing by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) yesterday on its proposed new resource on ESD. Quite why it is doing this, is still beyond me, as I have already noted. I didn't take part in the discussion...
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Bill Scott25 March 2013
ESD ≠ SD, unless ...
It ought to be obvious, even to those not privy to its arcane mysteries, that the concept of sustainable development and the process that is education for sustainable development cannot be the same thing. But it isn't, it seems, even to...
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Bill Scott22 March 2013
A Right Royal Charter
I don't know! You leave the country for a few days to bask in UNESCO's world heritage beneficence, and when you return you find Parliament proposing to overthrow hundreds of years of hard-won press freedoms. Not only that, but blogs...
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Bill Scott15 March 2013
Still muddling, not yet through
This is the title of a 1979 paper by Yale's CE Lindblom in Public Administration Review. An abridged version is here, c/o Google. It is an argument for disjointed instrumentalism as the preferred policy option. I thought it a great...
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Bill Scott14 March 2013
"They do it differently, they do it better, and ...
... they did it yesterday" is an observation that is sometimes remarked of the Scots – quite often, it has to be said, by the Scots. However, when it comes to ESD – or Learning for Sustainability – as they...
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Bill Scott13 March 2013
Letter to Sir Alan Langlands
Sir Allen Langlands is the Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This is the text of a recent letter about HE, learning, and sustainability. It speaks for itself, as does the list of those signing. Dear...
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Bill Scott11 March 2013
Think Tanks for ESD
Rolf Jucker, of Switzerland's new éducation21, posted this on SHED SHARE a few days ago: Since January 2013 I work in a new foundation here in Switzerland which is called éducation21 and is conceived as a one-stop-shop for ESD in Switzerland...
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Bill Scott8 March 2013
Anti-Neo-Liberals dust off their papers
I was disappointed to see EER's going ahead with a special issue devoted to how terrible neo-liberals are. After much editorial board tooing and froing about the pros (not many, I felt) and cons (too many to list) of the...