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One of the advantages of SEEd membership is that you get to know what CEO Ann Finlayson's been getting up to.  Last week she was at the 7th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC  7).  The pic shows UNEP Executive Director...

The letter in question is to the HEA from Hefce CEO, Sir Alan Langlands, and concerns funding arrangements for the HEA for 2013 / 14.  It's 11 pages long.  You can read it here. Sustainability / ESD / sustainable development get...

Following the publication of the 2013 Green League last week, the Guardian Higher Education Network hosted a 2 hour live webchat last Friday. This is how the Guardian introduced it: "Universities are the true thought leaders of society and if...

Here are the details that HEA has released about this year's Green Academy participants.  Two things strike me about all this: [i] the breadth and potential richness of it all; [ii] the lack of clarity about just what proposed outcomes...

In February 2011, the government launched its vision for mainstreaming sustainable development in relation to the operation of its buildings and estates, including the goods and services that it buys and the policies it makes.  Defra has now reported on progress...

No, not the bomb, in the Dr Strangelove sense.  Rather, in a John Foster sense, it's climate change: this irruption of the ineliminably wild back into lives which had forgotten it. This was one of the main themes of John's I-SEE...

It started in the Welsh Marches: walking, good pubs (one with a cabaret by refugees from the Hay Festival), and English song in and around Ludlow.  Hard to beat. World Environment Day I missed this, spending most of the day...

A wet day in Truro brought that existential dilemma faced by all Cornish tourists over recent years: get wet by visiting yet more gardens (think dripping rhododendrons), or go to the Eden Project.  So, the Project it was.  My first...

The penchant for vacuous marketing slogans has spread to universities, it seems, if aspects of the HEA's new Green Academy programme are anything to go by.  Most institutions on the programme have chosen a title for their project which reflects...

The UK Funding Council are consulting on HE performance indicators.  Hefce says that the indicators currently cover the following data: widening participation indicators non-continuation rates (including projected outcomes) module completion rates research output employment of graduates. ... with HESA providing the...