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The widening gulf between HEFCE and institutional activity
At long last, HEFCE has published its policy framework on sustainable development: "Sustainable development in higher education: HEFCE’s role to date and a framework for its future actions". You can access it here. If you decide to read it –...
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Fires, Trees and Mud Pies – all in a day's schooling
If it's a forest school, that is, or so the Guardian said in a feature last week. Maybe every school teacher should find time to read this. There are even positive stories about Ofsted.
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Separate tracks, real synergy or a strategic error?
Separate Tracks or Real Synergy? Achieving a Closer Relationship between Education and SD, Post-2015, is the title of a new article by Stephen Sterling based upon a longer concept paper: ‘Winning the Future We Want — the pivotal role of education...
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My! How smart those Americans are getting
A while back, The Economist recently had a brief piece (and nice graph) on grade inflation in the Ivy league, reporting that the median grade at Harvard is now A–, with A as the mode. But hang on, the Economist said,...
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COP out in Peru
Is it any real surprise that 11000 'delegates' in Peru failed to come to a decisive outcome over the last couple of weeks in COP20? How was that supposed to happen? The COPs, which started out as modest affairs, have grown...
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Climate Update – no change
This morning's Guardian has a gloomy update on COP20 from Lima which shows that all the usual fault lines are still in place – not enough cash and bad faith galore. The piece ends: In addition to finance, one of the...
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Strong Winds in Scotland – not many dead
In fact, despite warnings of biblical proportion from an increasingly frit Met Office, there were no dead at all, and I did wonder whether that rather irked the media outfits that had spent £zillions sending news teams to north-west Scotland to cover what...
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COP20 – are they really closing the gap?
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP20, comes at yet another "crucial moment, and talks continue on a draft international climate agreement due to be fanfared in Paris in 2015. Carbon Brief has a comment on proceedings so far, as governments back away from accountability...
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Who's afraid of Natural Capital?
I know that some prefer not to use the concept of natural capital; this can be for a variety of reasons, ranging from its association with the idea of money and monetary value, and worries that they will be labelled 'neo-liberal', across to...
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Ofsted's UKIP style shaping of the Curriculum
Ofsted is proposing that the same inspection framework can apply to two-year olds, teenagers, those in FE, and those taking apprenticeships. This is a ridiculous idea – great for Ofsted though, which is clearly what matters. There is much emphasis in...
