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Hold the Front Page: Bath comes 15th in World Green University League
This will come as a shock to everyone, including the university, I fancy. Bath usually loiters way down the UK's 'green' league; so, to come in the top 20 of an international league, and to beat many of the UK's usual suspects...
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Taiwan leads the way on waste
Inspiring news from Taiwan about waste. If the trend shown in this graph continues, Taiwanese folk will soon be generating negative amounts of waste. So inspiring. So how has Taiwan done it? First, through education. School children receive environmentally themed lessons...
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"Make ESD an Election Issue!" says UCU
Fat chance of this, you might think, when neither education nor sustainability look like being discussed at all. My money's on the economy generally, dealing with the deficit in particular, welfare, the NHS and other parties' lack of credibility. Anyway,...
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Get Carter?
I've been reading the Carter Review of ITT in England. It'd dedicated stuff, this blogging. The aim of the review was to identify which "core elements of high quality ITT across phases and subject disciplines are key to equipping trainees with...
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HEFCE, BIS, and Sustainability: the story continues ...
It's February, and so it's time for another letter from BIS to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), setting out the government's priorities for the HE sector for the coming year. I've written before about the political to-ings and...
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Excitement at the NUS Sustainability Oversight Board
Such a good day in London yesterday at the NUS, for its Sustainability Oversight Board. We looked at the NUS sustainability operating plan, at various aspects of its Responsible Futures initiative which is mid-way through its pilot year, and at the forthcoming student...
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Time to pack your bags when the government starts to promote character education
When a government says its "committed to helping schools ensure that more children develop a set of character traits, attributes and behaviours that underpin success in education and work", you know there's a certain desperation in the air, or an election...
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Sustainable Schools: seven propositions around young people’s motivations, interests and knowledge
Sustainable Schools: seven propositions around young people’s motivations, interests and knowledge Policy and practice around sustainable schools, and ESD more generally, tends to be based around largely tacit assumptions about young people’s motivations, interests and knowledge. In this brief paper...
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Teaching a green standard
This is Steve Martin's letter in today's THE ... A glaring omission from the People & Planet University League 2015 tables is any meaningful measure of teaching quality and how the programmes that universities offer contribute to the life chances...
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Overturning the measuring of 'quality' – a Gibbsean revolution
Although Graham Gibb's article in the THE last week is ostensibly about fees, ... "Higher fees should reflect an institution's quality, rather than status, so we should start measuring it, argues Graham Gibbs" ... it is actually an argument about how to measure...
