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The OECD's education director, Andreas Schleicher, has written an article for the BBC about his brave 'n' bold plans to have a focus on "global competence" in forthcoming PISA exams.  Good luck, I thought when I read it.  This is a...

I've decided to collect GEEPs.  So far, I have four. You might recall that I wrote about the international one last year when I attended a meeting in San Diego.  The Global Environmental Education Partnership [GEEP] is coming to the...

The Times Higher has a feature this week on VC pay, or "compensation package" as we're being encouraged to call it.  Here's the THE: "Vice-chancellors have again come in for flak over what they are paid.  We look at how their...

Thanks to the SEEd / NAEE blogs for alerting me to  recent paper in The Conservation by Hannah Pitt, Research Associate at Cardiff, comments on research by Natural England on the extent to which youth is ‘engaging with nature’. I’ve been commenting...

Rather inevitably, perhaps, since my post on Wednesday following my meeting at the NUS, I've been reading around the notion of a "liberated and sustainable curriculum".  Here's something of what NUS has to say about it: Universities rely on rigid curricula...

This morning's blog comes from Steve Martin ... The University and College Union (UCU) along with support from the National Union of Students held a one day conference last week (May 13th) at the University of Manchester, to look at...

Another stimulating day at the NUS sustainable development observatory board yesterday – although we’re now an advisory group, I note.  Too many Boards, it seems. We had a glimpse of the latest survey results about what students think about the...

Giving your school a ‘green’ focus delivers both educational and financial benefits, said an article in a recent TES.  The abstract (that is, the taster on the page that you could read without paying) said ... "Not so long ago, sustainability...

I don't know about you, but I've been waiting rather impatiently for the launch of the Green Scorecard, and we're told the other day by EAUC that this has been delayed for "technical issues".  Happily, though, these are being "worked on"....

I've been coming across a lot of articles recently that seem to take it for granted that universities, and the academics within them, should be "promoting sustainable development".  Sometimes this is hedged around with caveats and thoughts of a more...