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  • UNESCO's priority of priorities

    If you go to the UNESCO End-of Decade conference website, you find this information in a page bottom strap line: Our priorities Africa Gender Equality Education for All Sustainable Development Ethics Intercultural Dialogue Knowledge Societies Popular topics World Heritage Water...

  • Take the QAA HE ESD Quiz of the year

    As I noted at the time, I did badly on the Observer science quiz last year, and complained (to myself at least) that the questions seemed more about popular culture than science.  No such excuses this year where, again, I...

  • Walter, Walter everywhere ...

    I am pleased to ssee that Walter Leal is settled back working in the country, and as busy as ever.  Although, I know that WL has his critics, his UK re-entry is surely very welcome, and especially at a time...

  • While snow the window-panes bedim

    This is
 John Clare’s December that speaks of simple pleasures of a child’s Christmas, which, despite our more material, comfortable, and increasingly electronic times, can still make winter memorable. While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny...

  • Reviewing the Manifesto launch

    I wasn't able to be at the launch of the Manifesto we all Want the other day.  Had I been there, however, I hope that I might have managed to write the sort of perceptive review that the University of...

  • Every sentence a rebuke ...

    I commented a while back on draft guidance produced by HEAQAA experts.  This included 50+ (E)SD learning outcomes for students leaving universities.   In my response, I raised a number of issues about their content and about who they were...

  • All change at English Heritage as it becomes Historic England – and English Heritage

    I am slowly catching up with the changes to English Heritage [ EH ].  These are visionary or desparate, according to taste.  EH is to be broken up:  one part, still to be called English Heritage, will become a charity...

  • So, was there LiFE in Copernicus?

    About a year ago, I wrote this: We are encouraged to take both the Copernicus Alliance, and EAUC’s LiFE (Learning in Future Environments), seriously, as major initiatives supporting sustainability and learning, and I have no doubt that, for those involved, there...

  • Let's blame academics, says a Guardian headline

    The headline to a Guardian HE Network blog, published last week, says:  Why have academics been so slow to work with students on sustainability? It's always a newspaper temptation to identify a culprit or two.  The blog post itself, by...

  • Free social learning towards a sustainable world

    The day began with a free vintage (c. 2007) e-book offer from Arjen Wals: Social learning towards a sustainable world.  The publisher's blurb begins with commendable understatement: "This comprehensive volume – containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents  presents...