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  • More lunch than launch

    To parliament the other day, for the launch (over a good lunch) of a report by the Aldersgate Group, who say they are “leaders for a sustainable economy”.  The report is: Skills for a New Economy: a paradigm shift in education...

  • Ensuring future economic success – up to a point

    To parliament the other day, for the launch of a report by the Aldersgate Group, who say they are “leaders for a sustainable economy”.  The report is: Skills for a New Economy: a paradigm shift in education and learning to...

  • QAA improves its text – just a bit

    Earlier this year, QAA consulted on a draft Quality Code for HE in the UK.  In commenting on this, I was rather critical, but in good company as EAUC pitched in as well.  Having "listened", QAA has released a revised code...

  • Consuming Stourhead

    I am blessed by living ~45 minutes from Stourhead and go there at irregular intervals throughout the year.  It is a place to go with friends and visitors, and, as well as the gardens and house, there are extensive  walks...

  • Herman Daly's two populations problem

    I subscribe (no cost: what a bargain) to the Daly Post which is endlessly guaranteed to provide different perspectives on matters sustainable.  The most recent was on population – or, rather, populations.  It begins ... The population problem should be...

  • Anything to Declare?

    Alan Reid did a wonderful job recently in a posting to the EE Mailbase: making links to all those EE declarations / resolutions / reports / charters / strategies /  from 1972 onwards.  Reading the early ones reminds us how little...

  • There's been an unexpected boom in the badger population, it seems ...

    This was the reason that the today's Today programme put forward for the government's decision to put off its useless slaughter of badgers till the new year.  But this idea is ridiculous.  There has been no boom; no massive increase...

  • A good word for Mr Gove

    Cynics might expect a post with this title to be blank, but not at all.  I met a man in a university coffee queue last week who was, whilst not overly-effusive, quietly grateful to Mr Gove and the DfE.  This...

  • ESD in HE – a supply or demand issue?

    How to "integrate ESD into disciplines" within HE seems a topical issue, at least amongst those who see "promoting ESD" as being important, as opposed, say, to changing curricula.  However, I think it's possibly (ie, probably) the wrong question.  I...

  • Whatever happened to the RCEs?

    I remember going to the launch of the East Midlands Region Centre of Expertise [RCE], way back in 2007 (where I remember giving one of the worst talks of my life).  Since then, a number of RCEs have been set...