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I wrote a few weeks ago about a seminar at Bath given by Professor John Loughhead, chief scientific advisor to DECC.  His powerpoint slides are now available on the I-SEE website.  In what I wrote, I singled out a particular...

Here are two recent letters written by the Ofsted Chief to the DfE Secretary of State about the problem of unregistered schools: November 10th and December 11th.  They do not make good reading either in terms of the problems reported, or...

Thanks to Jamie Agombar and the NUS team for alerting me to an analysis of British Social Attitudes survey data carried out by NatCen which found that those with a degree were [i] more likely to feel that they understood the...

A great new deal, or just a fraud and a fake, as Jim Hansen says?   As I've noted already in a post-COP21 script to an earlier post, the new target of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is more political than scientific....

If you have ever wondered why there is so much attention paid to the touchstone idea of a 2 degree Celsius limit on the temperature rise above pre-industrial times, the Economist has the answer: It was born in the 1970s,...

Whilst it's relatively easy to come across bullshit these days as there's so much of it around, do you find there's a worry in the back of the mind that there might sometimes be something to it?  If so, then a...

There's an ESD event at COP21 on Thursday; perhaps you'll be there.  It's advertised as a panel discussion on “People at the heart of nature-based solutions” and it's asking the question: What is needed to unlock the power of education...

"For much of its history the American academy has been fending off the attempts of various forces to hijack the enterprise for foreign ends.  Now the invading force resides on the inside in the form of students who want colleges...

The current migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, and farther afield because of war and other social turmoil has already been linked to climate change – not only as a contributor to the problems of Syria, but...

Thanks to Stephen Sterling for alerting me to Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism – a report published by the National Association of Scholars [NAS] which says of it: "Sustainability” is a key idea on college campuses in the United States and...