New Publications

  • An end to curriculum

    Last  Friday the BBC reported on a leaked government paper about the revisions to the curriculum in England.  The BBC begins ... A draft copy of the new secondary curriculum for England, leaked to the Times Educational Supplement (TES), has drawn...

  • Effect of fasting versus feeding on the bone metabolic response to running

    I know!  But when your offspring has a paper featured on the Issue Highlights page of the eponymous journal, Bone, then an urge to celebrate the fact is hard to resist. Here's the Abstract Individuals often perform exercise in the...

  • This report will scare the wits out of everyone

    Well; up to a point, Lord Copper. So says Yvo de Boer of the UN's next climate change report.  UNDPWatch says ... THE next United Nations climate report will ''scare the wits out of everyone'' and should provide the impetus...

  • More lunch than launch

    To parliament the other day, for the launch (over a good lunch) of a report by the Aldersgate Group, who say they are “leaders for a sustainable economy”.  The report is: Skills for a New Economy: a paradigm shift in education...

  • Ensuring future economic success – up to a point

    To parliament the other day, for the launch of a report by the Aldersgate Group, who say they are “leaders for a sustainable economy”.  The report is: Skills for a New Economy: a paradigm shift in education and learning to...

  • QAA improves its text – just a bit

    Earlier this year, QAA consulted on a draft Quality Code for HE in the UK.  In commenting on this, I was rather critical, but in good company as EAUC pitched in as well.  Having "listened", QAA has released a revised code...

  • Herman Daly's two populations problem

    I subscribe (no cost: what a bargain) to the Daly Post which is endlessly guaranteed to provide different perspectives on matters sustainable.  The most recent was on population – or, rather, populations.  It begins ... The population problem should be...

  • Welcome to another NUS survey

    For the past couple of years, the (almost wholly) admirable NUS (supported by the HEA) has carried out research which showed that a majority of first year university students say that they want to learn about sustainability through their degree,...

  • ESD and the QAA – dangerous medicine

    Now that the QAA has embraced ESD – or so we're told, and HEFCE has spent a fortune encouraging / exploring / enabling this – I expect its fortunes (ESD's that is) to diminish even further.  Having experienced the QAA's...

  • Have you got all your [blue] marbles?

    I have, at last, run out of excuses for not looking at the phenomenon that is Blue Marble.  I note that the Untidy Britain Group is now part of this, as the latest BM Mag notes ... The need for...