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The Big Path Watch – how was it for you?
The Ramblers are encouraging us all, through its big path watch, to adopt a local grid square, walk all the rights of way within it, and report back to them on any problems found, and more generally, on how it...
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Is ELSA about to be born again?
I've not written about ELSA recently as there has not been anything to say. For example, its development group has not met for over a year, and it has not made any recent contribution to national debate about sustainability and...
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RSB spots a bandwagon, and falls off
RSB, the Royal Society of Biology, is hoping to benefit from recent popularity contests amongst bird-lovers, by launching a 'what's your favourite insect?' poll, or as the Guardian memorably puts it, a 'creepy-crawly celebrity contest' – more feral sub-editing, I...
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Hedge Schools
A hedge school is not some finishing academy for fund managers sponsored by the Titans of Wall Street, or an arcane off-shoot of the forest school movement; rather, it's the name given to an educational practice in 18th and 19th...
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'Ahelo 'Ahelo!
No, this is not about some dyslectic verison of the BBC's brilliant French farce of (almost) the same name, but the tale is Gallic in one respect. The term, Ahelo, is the acronym for 'Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes' which...
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What educational price a Brexit – or should that be Brexodus?
The THE recently carried quite a careful article on whether UK universities would be better off in / out of the EU. Or, it might have been about whether UK university research would be better off in / out of the EU...
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That dull green sheen
That Dull Green Sheen "Government pulls plug on funding for Green Deal Finance Company after only 10,000 homes sign up to energy household efficiency programme." Farewell then, to the Green Deal, That revolution in upgrading Britain’s Old and draughty housing...
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Access to Routledge journal output about the MDGs
In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] were formed to galvanise efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest. Eight goals were defined and 21 targets were set to be completed by 2015. To mark the final year of this programme, Taylor...
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WEEC 8 was a success – it's now official
Phew! What a relief; I was beginning to wonder ... . Actually, it was a "big success", according to a co-chair of the congress – that's how these international evaluations tend to go. You can read the full detail on the Transformative Learning...
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2015 – the year of 3 key conferences
There are 3 UN conference this year; two of these you know all about: the September meeting to agree the SDGs and the December meeting to try to sort out what to do about climate change. The first is likely...
