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University makes a sustainable spalsh in the Med
Thanks to eagle-eyed friends in the Antipodes for alerting me to the, clearly-must-read, Cotswold News. The News reports this week on the huge impact that UniGlos is making in the al-Maghrib and Mediterranean. Clearly, bonuses all round, especially if all this can...
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Webchat away
Following the publication of the 2013 Green League last week, the Guardian Higher Education Network hosted a 2 hour live webchat last Friday. This is how the Guardian introduced it: "Universities are the true thought leaders of society and if...
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Green Academy outcomes – more clarity please
Here are the details that HEA has released about this year's Green Academy participants. Two things strike me about all this: [i] the breadth and potential richness of it all; [ii] the lack of clarity about just what proposed outcomes...
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Ofscoff and Ofplot collaborate to boost rural jobs
The Director of Ofscoff's Equalities Office, Dr Rhoderic McSwain, confirmed in a statement today that he was looking into the scheme that the Chinese authorities put in place for numbering plants during the 2008 Olympics: "This was a bold initiative in...
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Good government progress in mainstreaming sustainable development – or so we're told
In February 2011, the government launched its vision for mainstreaming sustainable development in relation to the operation of its buildings and estates, including the goods and services that it buys and the policies it makes. Defra has now reported on progress...
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Time to learn to stop worrying and to love ...
No, not the bomb, in the Dr Strangelove sense. Rather, in a John Foster sense, it's climate change: this irruption of the ineliminably wild back into lives which had forgotten it. This was one of the main themes of John's I-SEE...
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My Week
It started in the Welsh Marches: walking, good pubs (one with a cabaret by refugees from the Hay Festival), and English song in and around Ludlow. Hard to beat. World Environment Day I missed this, spending most of the day...
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East of Eden
A wet day in Truro brought that existential dilemma faced by all Cornish tourists over recent years: get wet by visiting yet more gardens (think dripping rhododendrons), or go to the Eden Project. So, the Project it was. My first...
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Every little helps, but believe in better as well
The penchant for vacuous marketing slogans has spread to universities, it seems, if aspects of the HEA's new Green Academy programme are anything to go by. Most institutions on the programme have chosen a title for their project which reflects...
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New PIs wanted by Funding Councils
The UK Funding Council are consulting on HE performance indicators. Hefce says that the indicators currently cover the following data: widening participation indicators non-continuation rates (including projected outcomes) module completion rates research output employment of graduates. ... with HESA providing the...
