Bill Scott
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Bill Scott30 January 2012
4th Global Universities Network for Innovation report
I have been reading Lester Brown's Introduction [ The World on the Edge ] to the 4th GUNI [ Global Universities Network for Innovation ] report: Higher Education in the World 4, Higher Education's Commitment to Sustainability: from Understanding to Action'....
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Bill Scott30 January 2012
Ellen MacArthur in Davos
The new publication from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (with McKinsey) got an airing in Davos at the WEF ahead of its launch today, and was reported on the BBC. It's a credit to the interviewer that he got to the...
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Bill Scott29 January 2012
Welcome Judy Braus
Let me add my welcome to Judy Braus as the new Executive Director of the North American Association of Environmental Education [ NAAEE ]. Judy took up her post in December after senior roles at Audubon and WWF (the wildlife,...
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Bill Scott28 January 2012
World day of environmental education – all over again
Rather belatedly, I discover that Thursday – 26th January – was the World Day of Environmental Education. I'm grateful to Learn from Nature, for pointing this out. It seems that this has its origin in 1972 with the Declaration of...
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Bill Scott25 January 2012
You should continue to support institutions in their efforts to improve their sustainability
The title of this posting comes from the very recent grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2012 / 13). It comes from para 22, which says: The HE sector has made good progress in recent years...
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Bill Scott25 January 2012
How does ESDGC make a difference? Does ESDGC ...
This week's Economist carried a sad tale of a decade of scholastic stagnation in Wales following the teacher unions' (entirely selfless) success in persuading a credulous government that it was in young people's interests that national league tables of schools...
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Bill Scott24 January 2012
More on national curriculum revisions
In a recent posting, I commented that the expert group's proposal to government that an aim of the revised curriculum ought to be to ... Promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally was a pertinent phrasing...
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Bill Scott24 January 2012
An opportunity for head teachers everywhere
The BBC reported on saturday that the Occupy movement is looking to extend its activities to outreach; that is to the wider community including schools. The BBC reports: The protest group says the point of its occupation is to reclaim "the space...
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Bill Scott23 January 2012
UNECE's coinage
With my usual heavy (but ever-hopeful) heart, I have been reading some UNECE text in preparation for a meeting on the "green economy". In the Introduction to a discussion paper on the role of education for sustainable development in shifting to...
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Bill Scott20 January 2012
Do print this page if you need to
Am I the only one out there who's getting more annoyed by the day with the hectoring moralising that increasingly now comes with emails? I had one today that said: Please don't print things like emails unnecessarily I was sorely...