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I'm told it will soon be Wiltshire Council policy that all pedestrians in the county are to be kept at least 50 metres away from cars travelling at 50 kph, and farther away from those travelling at higher speeds.  There...

I received an email Network Link newsletter from UNESCO UK the other day, and was pleased to see that it contained a number of references to education, including two focused on sustainability.  One was about ESD in Practice: To raise...

This is the end of George Monbiot’s piece in the Guardian the other day: … That we have missed the chance of preventing two degrees of global warming now seems obvious.  That most of the other planetary boundaries will be...

Earlier this year, a conference in Bonn, Education for Sustainable Development – international workshop ‘Horizon 2015’, organized by the German UNESCO Commission, asked around 50 participants to identify obstacles and resources (barriers and drivers) that could hinder or further the...

Page 18 of the full version of the new UNESCO report on the DESD contains a figure [2] showing Google hits on websites representing various adjectival educations (EE / ESD / ...).  Sadly, I'm not techie enough to copy it...

The UNESCO website has two reports on progress in the Decade.   There is a full version, and an abridged one.  Oddly, the latter is almost as long as the former, but it has much less text and a lot of...

I've been reading the QAA's UK Quality Code for Higher Education, and commenting through its consultation process on Chapter B3: Learning and Teaching.   This followed a request to SHED-SHARE members: The new UK Quality Code is a revision of the...

It's green league table time again.  This year, the University of Bath has slipped in the table from 31st to 57th position and lost its 1st class honours rating as a result.  I could find no publicity about this on its...

I was planning an extensive final comment on the substantive Rio issues (as opposed to the education ones), but I read Paul Vallely in the Observer this morning who said everything I wanted to (and more) in what I felt...

I have finally gotten hold of the Rio+20 final text via the UN.  Whilst there are numerous references to education / training / capacity building in a wide range of contexts, there's also a section on Education as one of an...