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Graduating from Destitution
A recent Free Exchange column in the Economist was a feature on helping the world's most poor people to help themselves. It begins: "THE poor do not just lack money. They are also often short of basic know-how, the support of...
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WSSD-U-2016
For all those who've still got withdrawal symptoms from WEEC 15, along comes WSSD-U-2016. I know it sounds like a WW2 submarine, but it's another conference (as if the poor Earth hadn't had enough already). So, if you're anywhere Boston next September,...
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Another thought for August
A (kind) colleague in the US sent this to me wondering about the state of our education system. As a mix of credulity and ignorance, it is almost beyond comment.
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10 Green Groups
... have written to No. 10 to complain about government policy on the environment. The NAEE website has the detail. The signatories style themselves: "the leaders of ten leading UK charities concerned with protection of the environment", which made me wonder why...
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
I've been reading Steven Weinberg's 'Lake Views: this world and the universe'. It's a lucid collection of essays and other writings. In the chapter, Without God, Weinberg discusses the 12th century Sufi philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali [1058-1111 CE] who wrote The Incoherence of...
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Anyone for EYD?
Did you know it was the EYD? I didn't either. I still didn't, when someone explained that EYD stood for the European Year of Development. This, it seems, is an EU gambit that's setting out to increase our understanding of the...
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Thought for August
Why do meetings to discuss the importance of learning outside the classroom tend to take place indoors?
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Ahelo Goodbye
Last week's THE has this headline: World’s university ‘oligopoly’ accused of blocking OECD bid to judge learning quality ... with a great image of great animals blocking a US highway (that is, the economy and implied progress). There were no pictures of...
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More on ELSA – or should that be ELSIE?
Following my recent news about the re-birth of the English Learning and Sustainability Alliance [ELSA] – which could yet be premature – I've been thinking about the name problem. Here's my suggestion for removing the confusion between ELSA, the organisation, and Elsa,...
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Addis Ababa's Alliterative Action Agenda
As I noted earlier, the UN 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development took place in July in Addis Ababa. The UN says it was a success: Countries reach historic agreement to generate financing for new sustainable development agenda. Countries today...
