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My day in court
Well, that should really be: An afternoon at the University of Bath Court, but ... I went to the Court meeting, which was informative and lively. I also went to a lecture beforehand with the title: Empowering Higher Education for a Sustainable...
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5 perspectives on environmental education
The NAEE blog has a recent, and rather skeptical, post about a paper in EER. This is: Fraser J, Gupta R & Krasny ME (2015) Environmental Education Research 21(5) 777-800 I read it when it first emerged, and also wondered how...
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A compass for the sustainable development goals
GRI, the UN Global Compact, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), have developed the idea of an SDG Compass following extensive consultations with companies, government agencies, universities and NGOs. They say that the Compass explains how the SDGs will...
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The purpose and quality of education in England
I've been reading the arguments made following the recent House of Commons Education select committee call for submissions on the purpose and quality of education in England. Written evidence was invited to address the following: What the purpose of education for children of...
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What's the EU ever done for us?
What's the EU ever done for us? is clearly a topical question, if not always an easy one to answer. Here's an answer of sorts that I recently received from 'the continent' ... "Not much, apart from: providing 57% of our trade;...
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ESD into the SDGs doesn't go
Dear me! I hear that UNESCO is planning to develop a "guiding framework on the interlinkages between the SDGs and specific ESD-related skills" so that education policy-makers, curriculum developers and educators across the world can do what they usually do with such...
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Have you been quoted by Donald Trump?
I ask, not because Trump has done this to me – and it seems unlikely he ever would, unless I start writing about Mexicans – but because an academic equivalent has – that is, someone I usually put in the same sort...
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UN GA ESD GAP
In a resolution entitled “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)”, the United Nation's general assembly [GA] has reaffirmed UNESCO’s role as lead agency for the implementation of the Global Action Programme on ESD, the follow-up of the ESD Decade....
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Even UNESCO now talks about education, not ESD
UNESCO is sidelining its flagging ESD project. Although its website recently had this headline: Education for Sustainable Development placed firmly on the COP21 map ... it was followed by this: "The critical role of education in climate change was given the stamp...
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How can we make UK higher education sustainable?
This is not my question. It's a headline in today's Times Higher [THE]. Needless to say, it's got nothing to do with the sort of sustainability that usually features in this blog. Rather, it's about the financial viability of higher...
