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#NewDealforWork – #butisitthinkingaboutsustainability?
To coincide with celebrations for International Workers’ Day, NUS recently launched a Commission on the Future of Work which is a call for evidence from students and stakeholders from across the private, public and not for profit sectors on the...
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Madeline by name – but mandoline by nature?
Rumours abound that the new(ish) HEFCE CEO, Madeleine Atkins, has been slicing and dicing the funding council's commitments to sustainability. She wants, it's said, more of a hard-edged focus on the environment and less attention given to fluffier social justice stuff...
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There are orderly queues forming in Manchester
The outline programme of WSSD-U-2014 to be held in Manchester this September is now availableAs the conference maître d, Walter Leal (Filho) has not managed to find anyone good enough to provide the inaugural lecture, he's going to give it...
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The employment elephant in the lecture room
Yesterday, along with everyone on the EAUC e-list, I received a summary of a UNESCO commissioned report that "presents a critical review of sustainable development in Higher Education, mapping change over the period, identifying key trends and outcomes". As well as...
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One impulse from a vernal wood
I went out one bright April morning into a vernal wood; it’s the nearest Wiltshire Wildlife Trust reserve to where I live, and I did so with Wordsworth’s insight in my head: One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you...
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Green Academy evaluation report No 2
The Higher Education Academy's first Green Acdemy change programme was launched in 2011 to help higher education institutions to embed education for sustainable development (ESD) into the overall student experience. This second evaluation report (the first was carried out in 2012)...
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Contradictions at the heart of EAUC
Sometimes, it’s hard to know what to make of the EAUC. For example, it is smart enough to have persuaded the Scottish Funding Council [SFC] to part with £400k over 3 years to: “deliver support for Scottish institutions on carbon reduction...
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Earth Day Celebration – a word from John of Gaunt
For those who took Philip Larkin's gloomy text about the state of the country(side) too much to heart, fear not. As AN Wilson noted in his poetry of place book, England, for Eland Books, this country has been going to the dogs from at least...
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Earth Day Celebration – a line or two from Philip Larkin
In 1971, Philip Larkin was commissioned to write a prologue to a UK government report, How Do You Want To Live? This was one of the UK's papers submitted to the iconic 1972 UN Stockholm conference. Larkin was always going to...
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Earth Day Celebration – readings c/o Berghahn Journals
In celebration of Earth Day, Berghahn Journals are giving free access to a special virtual issue that focuses on climate change. It features a collection of articles from eight journals spanning multiple disciplines which deliver scholarly and informed opinion on...
