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A week ago, I was at a poorly-attended, but rather stimulating, meeting of the Higher Education Academy's advisory group on ESD.  It benefitted from the presence of a senior HEA staffer who brought keen knowledge of the Academy's current problems to...

Keep Britain [Un]tidy was 60 years old on the 4th June.  You can read its self-satisfied story of failure here.  Over the years, it has changed its name more times than the average nuclear re-processing plant.  I commented on its...

I had this request the other day: I’m a journalist with Solar Media, we run a few news sites covering solar energy and renewables and energy efficiency more generally.  I was looking for some on the record reaction to the...

NIACE – which sells itself as “The National Voice for Lifelong Learning” – has launched it’s manifesto for the elections in 2015: Skills for Prosperity – Building Sustainable Recovery for All This says: “This manifesto urges all of the political...

There was much talk last week of British values, and the need for schools to teach them – and not just in Birmingham.  Not for the first time schools are asked to step up at times of moral crisis. In a piece I was...

This is the title of a paper from David Stevens of the University of Nottingham in Studies in Philosophy and Education (February 2014).  It's available (to purchase) here. Here's the Abstract ... Proponents of environmentalist views often urge the teaching of such views and the inculcation of...

Here's a recent talk by Ken Webster at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.  There is much in it about the real world, and about sustainability and learning – though not about ESD.  A stimulating way to start the day.

The origins of education for sustainable development, education for sustainability, etc lie in environmental education and development education.  Over time, these have brought together a wide variety of educational approaches which examine how living things relate to each other and depend on...

The HEA's 2012/13 annual report, comments on the Academy's sustainability work under a number of headings.  For the record, here are the references to sustainability, sustainable development, and ESD.  There are quite a few: Change (p. 36) We offer a...

The UK is No. 2 in Europe for Education.  Well, so says Pearson – and they should know as they seem increasingly to be running it.  The BBC reports their latest Economist Intelligence Unit world survey and says: These rankings are based...