June 2013

I had a day in the Holy of Holies last week – the Royal Institution.   An exhausting whole day, sitting, at least in a ghostly sense, alongside the likes of Davy, Faraday, Dewar, Bragg, Kelvin,  Jeans, Hoyle,  Rutherford, ......

One of the advantages of SEEd membership is that you get to know what CEO Ann Finlayson's been getting up to.  Last week she was at the 7th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC  7).  The pic shows UNEP Executive Director...

The letter in question is to the HEA from Hefce CEO, Sir Alan Langlands, and concerns funding arrangements for the HEA for 2013 / 14.  It's 11 pages long.  You can read it here. Sustainability / ESD / sustainable development get...

To Academics Everywhere .... Are you tired of having your work cited by those who’ve clearly not read it? Or fed up with citations where the author obviously doesn't understand your paper? Are you plagued by authors who change what...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...