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I understand that QAAHEA’s guidance to universities on ESD is nearly complete, and that it will soon shift into the QAA & HEA bureaucracies for approval and eventual publication.  It seems that there is also talk of a launch, although...

I had an email the other day which assumed that just because I favour alternative technologies – I engaged in some mild-mannered activism in relation to Wiltshire Council's policies on (that is to say, against) wind farms – I must,...

It's the time of year that Hefce gets to hear about money (and other things) from government.  The grant letter arrived on Monday, and was not good news.  Here it is: Dear Tim, HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING 2014-15 We are writing with...

The HEAQAA's expert team is busy reacting to comments received on its draft materials.  Tensions abound, I hear, especially  about (1) continuing uncertainty as to who all this is for, and (2) a persistence of the idea that it's ESD...

This was the question posed on Tuesday at a University of Bath I-SEE seminar by Gordon McGlone, an ecologist who spent his career working with the Wildlife Trusts and now runs a consultancy ‘Thinking Naturally’.  Gordon was CEO of Gloucestershire...

I've written before about English Heritage's interest in having some "authentic" Neolithic – neo-Neolithic, that is – houses at the new Stonehenge visitor centre.    Well, here they are, emergent ... The new centre is the building in the background...

An English school suspended a 6-year old boy for 4 days recently.  What was his crime do you suppose? Was he abusive? Was he violent? Was he a bully? Did he have Class A drugs down his trousers? Pornography up...

If you live where I do, it's currently hard to avoid local and national media stories about the recurrent flooding of the Somerset Levels, and the hardships of entire villages now marooned in the floods for weeks.  The Army was...

After the excitement of Thursday's consultation meeting in London, Hefce will be sifting through all those tweets, emails, comments, questions, videos, and post-it notes – and waiting for the deadline (on Friday) of its formal consultation period about its proposals.  I've...

The Hefce consultation meeting is over.  As for, my question ... In 2009, Hefce said this: “It remains our view that the greatest contribution that universities and colleges can make to sustainable development is through the values, skills and knowledge...