News this morning from BBC Wiltshire that Stonehenge was "the most visited paid for tourist attraction in the South West" in 2010, beating the Eden Project into second place.   This must be doubly galling for the never knowingly over-sold Eden,...

I confess that I have been slow to acknowledge that the Prince of Wales, with significant others, has penned a fat book on Harmony: a new way of looking at our world.  This is a text which, I am told,...

Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education is a project funded by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council which involves the  University of Western Sydney (Lead), the Sustainable Futures Academy (Salzburg), the Australian National University, and the University of Gloucestershire. A...

A press release dated 10th August 2009, from the Office for Strictures and Control on Fodder and Food (Ofscoff), welcomes the government's promised new regulations on disability in the food chain (England). A spokesperson for Ofscoff, Dr Isabella McTarry-Wilson, is...

When the saintly Tony Blair said  "Although now is not the time for sound-bites, I can feel the hand of history on my shoulder ..." (or somesuch), I fear that I must have cringed and groaned, probably in equal measure....

Those parents who seemingly took their young children onto the streets to see looting in action must take a dim view of the citizenship education they're getting in schools.  Perhaps they thought that some sort of balance was necessary.  Meanwhile,...

An early rise recently to get to Stoke on Trent on time to attend a conference at Keele University's Centre for Successful Schools.  The focus was The Curriculum: lessons to be learned? It was an unremittingly old fashioned series of...

Publishers are always on the lookout for new journal niches, ever eager to part universities and academics from their ready money.  Browsing at the wonderful Art in Action festival recently, I stumbled upon a proposal for project of unfinished projects...

It seems that Waste Watch and Keep Britain Tidy are to merge (although you'd be hard pressed to know this from looking at their web sites this morning).  Speculation has been rife about the new organisation's name, with the hot...

... well, enormous hope and expectation at the very least. LiFE (Learning in Future Environments) is EAUC's rebranded, refurbished and soon-to-be relaunched Universities that Count project.  It is funded by the four UK Higher Education Funding Councils: the Higher Education...