February 2012

It's wonderful what you can find on iTunes these days, but to come across a whole lot of stuff on ESD some may think rather unexpected.  Not so, however, just click here to find 81 (at today's count) outputs from Education...

KPMG have published a report on the sustainability megaforces will “impact each and every business over the next 20 years" – and the rest of us, no doubt.  Ten are cited: Climate Change Energy & fuel Material resource scarcity Water...

The University of Keele has appointed Jonathon Porritt as its new Chancellor – brave, or what? I ask this as JP remains an activist to his core as completely befits someone who a founder of Forum for the Future, and...

I am recently returned from an HEA policy think tank on Graduate attributes and the green economy. This is the two-page stimulus paper I drafted for the event: The idea of the graduate attribute This is appealing, seductive almost, and...

In the spirit of balance and fair-mindedness, I have been struggling for a week or so to find anyone with a good word to say about the lately departed Chris Huhne, but the web is full of direct and/or oblique...

I'm grateful to Alan Reid for the following: A team from the University of Minnesota is traveling across all seven continents to understand how education and sustainability coincide.  Aaron Doering, a learning technologies associate professor, and his co-explorer Charlie Miller,...

There's ... plagiarism when you copy chunks of somebody else's already-published text and 'forget' to cite it accurately (or at all) plagiarism of a more subtle sort when you use part of something you've already published yourself elsewhere without making...

As I noted the other day, a request came from UNESCO to capture key developments and responses to ESD ahead of a meeting in Bonn later this month to discuss the "adoption of the UN Decade" and "vision building for...

This arrived the other day, care of the SHED SHARE mail server: Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate your advice and input regarding a brief ESD sheet I have been asked to complete.  UNESCO is hosting meeting in Bonn later this month...

That's Les (VC & Prof) Ebdon, who might yet not be the new director of OFFA, and Vince (the once and future sage of Twickenham) Cable who might yet appoint him as such – or will he? OFFA is the...