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In 1971, Philip Larkin was commissioned to write a prologue to a UK government report, How Do You Want To Live?  This was one of the UK's papers submitted to the iconic 1972 UN Stockholm conference.   Larkin was always going to...

In celebration of Earth Day, Berghahn Journals are giving free access to a special virtual issue that focuses on climate change.  It features a collection of articles from eight journals spanning multiple disciplines which deliver scholarly and informed opinion on...

The other day, the International New York Times has a feature on (international) ESD.  It begins: "From Mauritius to Manitoba, climate change is slowly moving from the headlines to the classroom.  Schools around the world are beginning to tackle the...

Last week’s GulfNews – essential reading I find – reported a “leading educationalist” as saying that … “The UAE is among the top five countries in the world in sustainability education, inspiring students to take part in advanced sustainability coursework...

Rio 2 is set in the Amazon, and I watched it over Easter with my grandchildren.  It was technically brilliant, of course, full of smart tributes to Holywood, and, appropriately for a film whose messages were so black and white,...

I wrote the other day about the steady reductions in tax-payer funding from to the Higher Education Academy [HEA] from the Higher Education Funding Council for England [Hefce].   One consequence of this is that when the funding stops entirely,...

The other day I watched EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik give a presentation on TEDx.  He was supposed to be talking about “New environmentalism and the circular economy” – but he didn’t.  The talk was full of scary data, mostly around...

Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove is clearly a Drifters fan – well, aren't we all; I'm always thinking about being somewhere under the boardwalk, down by the sea. However, the cerebral Mr Gove, as you might expect, rather...

Sadly, however, the OECD only praises them for minimising gender differences in attainment.  Boys and girls now do equally badly, it seems.  This is not what equal opportunities was supposed to be about. I searched the report in vain for...

UE4SD – University Educators for Sustainable Development – is a new project on professional development and ESD in universities, working across Europe “to locate and capture recent efforts to support the development of ESD capabilities of university teaching staff.”  The...