New Publications

The UNESCO website has two reports on progress in the Decade.   There is a full version, and an abridged one.  Oddly, the latter is almost as long as the former, but it has much less text and a lot of...

I've been reading the QAA's UK Quality Code for Higher Education, and commenting through its consultation process on Chapter B3: Learning and Teaching.   This followed a request to SHED-SHARE members: The new UK Quality Code is a revision of the...

It's green league table time again.  This year, the University of Bath has slipped in the table from 31st to 57th position and lost its 1st class honours rating as a result.  I could find no publicity about this on its...

I have finally gotten hold of the Rio+20 final text via the UN.  Whilst there are numerous references to education / training / capacity building in a wide range of contexts, there's also a section on Education as one of an...

Thanks to the NAEE blog for its advance notice of Empty Classroom Day on July 6th.  Fittingly, Project Dirt has the detail. I'm never keen on these sort of focused days, and certainly when part of every school day ought surely to...

Attached is an extended version of the editorial I have contributed to the 100th edition of NAEE's Environmental Education.  Quite a milestone. The text looks back to what HMI were saying in 1979 about environmental education and the curriculum in...

Last week, the 5th International Conference of the Living Knowledge Network issued a Communiqué on Sustainability, Knowledge and Democracy – an initiative of the 'Big Tent' Group of international networks.  Some have lauded this, but I fear it's not for me....

I viewed the first two episodes of Michael Apted's 56 Up with nervous anticipation of a wonderful TV venture – one I have been watching since the late 1970s when the early programmes were used on Bath's pre-service teacher education PGCE...

The Green Alliance blog has an interesting post today titled: Should the [UK] government advertise the “green switchover”? 'Advertise' here means communicate to a generally unaware public through TV in order to increase adoption of green initiatives such as the Green Deal...

The Royal Society's recent report, People and the Planet, had not had the sort of reception its authors might have wished.  The Economist was unimpressed, branding it a curate's egg: ... it might have been nice, in adopting the first...