Bill Scott
30 November 2016

EAUC misleads the FE sector

Posted in: Comment, New Publications

I did as I was encouraged to do the other day and looked at the new SORTED resources on sustainability on EAUC's Sustainability Exchange website.  Its aimed at the FE sector, and the first thing that you read is this nonsense:

1.1. What is sustainability?
Sustainability is an ideal state where human activity does not degrade the environment, but maintains natural systems and resources for future generations.

There seems no point in reading the rest of what's there if it begins like this:  30 years of careful thinking traduced in 20 words.  If she were dead, Mrs Bruntdland would be whirling in her grave.

Does no one at EAUC know anything about sustainability?

Posted in: Comment, New Publications

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