Bill Scott
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Bill Scott3 June 2013
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...
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Bill Scott31 May 2013
Well ahead of my curve
I recently finished a report for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on its education work since launch in 2010. Titled, Ahead of the Curve, it can be downloaded here. The report is much more colourful and graphic, in the design sense,...
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Bill Scott27 May 2013
A grenade in the Curriculum Journal
As I noted recently, I have a forthcoming paper in the Curriculum Journal, in a special issue on education and sustainability in the UK. So has Ken Webster, I'm pleased to say. His contribution is a poke in the ribs for those...
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Bill Scott24 May 2013
When you think about sustainability, do you really need to think about quality?
I began drafting this post at the end of March, on a train slowly making its way through that most soothing of landscapes, the Wiltshire Downs. I was returning home from three days on the road: grandchildren (an education in...
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Bill Scott22 May 2013
UN General Assembly discusses sustainable development goals
The UN general Assembly is devoting 24 days in 2013 to an open working group on sustainable development goals. Of these just part of one day (in November) is devoted to education, with "employment and decent work for all", "social...
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Bill Scott21 May 2013
Fifty thousand saw I at a glance ...
...tossing their heads in sprightly dance. No. Mercifully not daffodils, but snakeshead fritillaries at one of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust's splendid reserves in the Cotswold Water Park. I didn't count them, of course, but OU researchers did. Good to see...
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Bill Scott20 May 2013
More stories from the Shed
There was an unusual flurry of activity in Shed Share last week. It followed this request from the student union at the London Institute of Education (IoE): Hello. I am part of the Sustainability Network at the Institute of Education,...
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Bill Scott17 May 2013
The party may soon be over
The Economist has a piece last week on academic journal publishing: It begins, AT THE beginning of April, Research Councils UK, a conduit through which the government transmits taxpayers’ money to academic researchers, changed the rules on how the results...
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Bill Scott16 May 2013
A trilemma we all share
I listened to nPower's Paul Bowtell the other day at a Wildlife Trust Corporate Green Awards breakfast. He talked about the company's "trilemma" of Moving to a low carbon economy Maintain a secure supply Keeping energy affordable ... all at...
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Bill Scott15 May 2013
400.03 and counting ...
That's 400 ppm of atmospheric CO2, of course as a symbolic (though hardly milestone) level is reached, and exceeded. The 400.03 ppm figure was reported by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] on May 10th. For the record, these...