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... would you spend it on WL (F)'s new book?  Me neither, even though it has been digitally water-marked.   The book, according to the normally reliable SDRN, is "... published as part of the award-winning ‘Climate Change Management Series’, led by...

There was a headline in the Guardian recently which ran: Global school tests under attack as OECD accused of killing 'joy of learning' It began:  Leading academics have accused the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) of acting as...

I'm no great fan of Druids, particularly the Wiltshire set who always seem to be claiming far too much for themselves in terms of their presence in, and influence on,  antiquity, and even pre-history.  Time spent in the museum in...

To coincide with celebrations for International Workers’ Day, NUS recently launched a Commission on the Future of Work which is a call for evidence from students and stakeholders from across the private, public and not for profit sectors on the...

Rumours abound that the new(ish) HEFCE CEO, Madeleine Atkins, has been slicing and dicing the funding council's commitments to sustainability.  She wants, it's said, more of a hard-edged focus on the environment and less attention given to fluffier social justice stuff...

The outline programme of WSSD-U-2014 to be held in Manchester this September is now availableAs the conference maître d, Walter Leal (Filho) has not managed to find anyone good enough to provide the inaugural lecture, he's going to give it...

Yesterday, along with everyone on the EAUC e-list, I received a summary of a UNESCO commissioned report that "presents a critical review of sustainable development in Higher Education, mapping change over the period, identifying key trends and outcomes".  As well as...

I went out one bright April morning into a vernal wood; it’s the nearest Wiltshire Wildlife Trust reserve to where I live, and I did so with Wordsworth’s insight in my head: One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you...

Sometimes, it’s hard to know what to make of the EAUC.   For example, it is smart enough to have persuaded the Scottish Funding Council [SFC] to part with £400k over 3 years to: “deliver support for Scottish institutions on carbon reduction...

For those who took Philip Larkin's gloomy text about the state of the country(side) too much to heart, fear not.  As AN Wilson noted in his poetry of place book, England, for Eland Books, this country has been going to the dogs from at least...