News and Updates

  • EESD – a couple of good questions

    The highlight of Tuesday morning at EESD was not the Keynote by BP's Ellen Williams, provocative though that was (as well as being welcome in a post-Browne sense).  Rather, it was the pre-presentations questions posed by the Chair of parallel...

  • EESD – a revisionist view of UBC

    I've long had the view that it was the University of British Columbia [UBC] that you should look to in order to see the intersection of higher education and sustainability at its best; that is, for an integration across research,...

  • EESD: Lord Browne, and half a speech

    The second keynote on day one of the conference was given by Lord Browne of Maddingley.  It  hadn't a title, which may have been because it didn't have much of a focus.  This was a keynote that could have been...

  • EESD-13 an international affair

    The number of countries represented here is impressive.  They include: USA     Canada     Mexico     Colombia     Chile     Virgin Islands     Ghana     South Africa     Malaysia     China     Australia  ...

  • Going to EESD 13 – still rethinking the engineer

    I'm off to EESD 13 this week – just to listen, and to represent ELSA ; the English Learning and Sustainability Alliance.   This is the conference blurb: Much progress has been made over the last decade in introducing concepts...

  • Schools meals for all – probably not

    Well, we shall see whether the government's new policy of free school meals for all under 7s will deliver its desired outcomes in terms of increased pupil concentration in the afternoon, and greater attainment – well, in the narrow sense...

  • My week

    I was at ECER in Istanbul with the new ESE Network – which you will know all about if you've been paying attention. The meeting was at BAU, a university I'd not been to before.   There’s a rumour that it’s...

  • ECER ESE 2

    The presentations in the second Symposium session were: Research in Higher Education for Sustainable Development – Current Trends and Approaches Matthias Barth (University of Applied Sciences, Ostwestfalen-Lippe) & Marco Rieckmann (University of Vechta) Implementing ESE in education systems. Researching the...

  • Blogging from ECER

    After a gap of many years, I am at the European Conference on Educational Research in Istanbul.  The pull of this year's event was the first meeting of a new grouping: Research on Environmental and Sustainability Education [ESE].  Another anachrocnym, I...

  • The UN takes a dim view

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has initiated a number of processes to help devise the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will maxise benefit for humanity during the years 2015-2030.  One of these, the sustainable development solutions network (SDSN) has identified ten...