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Icons and Idiots: straight talk on leadership
It’s not widely known, but, when the UK's Vice Chancellors last marched on Whitehall, they did it to this chant: What do we want? – More leadership development materials ... When do we want it? – By the end of...
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Education for Sustainable Development – draft guidance for UK higher education providers
What follows is a critical appreciation of the Education for Sustainable Development – draft guidance for UK higher education providers, which has been produced by an expert group in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) and...
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NUS Environmental Sustainability Direction and Oversight Board
I'm pleased to have been appointed as one of the four external members of the National Union of Students' Environmental Sustainability Direction and Oversight Board. I'm a keen supporter of NUS generally, but particularly of Jamie Agombar and his very able team...
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No. 55 Model High – ESD – School
A highlight of the recent Beijing Forum was a field visit to No. 55 High School. You can find details of the school here. This is one of Beijing's experimental ESD schools which also has an international arm. Now, I usually...
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RSPB Disconnect
I’ve been reading the RSPB’s new survey of 8 to 12 year olds and their conclusions that only 21% of them are as “connected to nature” as the RSPB thinks they need to be. This is based on a survey...
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My Beijing keynote
My keynote at the 6th Beijing Forum on ESD was about the problem of identifying sustainable development indicators that focus on the contribution of education; that is, ESD. This is the text of the talk ... The Development of ESD...
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My Week in Beijing
It began with a 17 hour journey with the turning Earth across 7 time zones: Wiltshire to Beijing: door to door. Once there, the days were ok – the nights not. It was rather fine weather, from a sunnyist point...
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Insight from Manitoba
You have to go all the way to Beijing to meet a man from Manitoba with radical insights into education and sustainability, but it was worth it, for this Leninesque perspective: Sustainable Development = ESD + Hydroelectricity This is tough...
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Second Post from Beijing
A nice quote from Engels in Mr Tao Xiping's talk on the Strategic Value of ESD and its Future Development: "We are punished for every victory over nature." It would be nice to think so, as would be the notion...
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Post(card) from Beijing
The 6th Beijing International Forum on begins in two hours with ceremony, and with welcomes from: Niu Chunshan, Deputy Mayor, People’s Government of Beijing Municipality Xian Lianping, Director, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education Liu Limin, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education...
