This week's Economist reports that the Scottish government is having to raid FE budgets (and other unspecified pots) to keep its universities afloat. Scotland may be able to write education policies, but it is still subject to financing decisions made...

Here's an educational question, if not yet an existential one: should you laminate your poster, or not?   This will be a question which, for many, is a no-brainer in that it's obviously something not to do because it isn't actually...

Yesterday's Guardian reported that a survey by the School Food Trust [SFT] has shown that 89 out of 100 academies suveyed are selling high sugar / fat / salt snacks (aka junk food) that do not conform to the 2008...

The Green Alliance blog has an interesting post today titled: Should the [UK] government advertise the “green switchover”? 'Advertise' here means communicate to a generally unaware public through TV in order to increase adoption of green initiatives such as the Green Deal...

The Royal Society's recent report, People and the Planet, had not had the sort of reception its authors might have wished.  The Economist was unimpressed, branding it a curate's egg: ... it might have been nice, in adopting the first...

Preparing for a talk on communicating sustainable development with the public, I've been reading far too many reports than are good for me. The following is from a survey of attitudes and knowledge relating to biodiversity and the natural environment (2007...

Just how different are schools and universities when it comes to addressing sustainability?  I pondered that question recently, and the associated one of wondering whether "lessons" from one sector could have any applicability in the other.  I've been doing this,...

An engrossing story last night, in BBC FOUR's Unnatural Histories series, about the creation of Yellowstone national park and thence the whole US national park service.  It was packed with incident and argument, and wholly unsentimental – a nice change...

Well, according to the Telegraph's excitable headline writers they do!  However, the truth is less dramatic and more interesting – as was revealed if you struggled to the bottom of the story. According to research summarised in Ars Technica, ......

I wonder if this picture of a lesser black-backed gull taking a duckling from Dublin's Herbert Park pond will feature on many wildlife charity Christmas cards this year. I suspect not, as we're squeamish about some of the realities of the natural...