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The world is too much with us ...
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her...
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Passing the Panda
Earth Hour was on 31 March 2012, 2030, and was something of a global phenomenon with, we're told, hundreds of millions of people turning off their lights for one hour across the planet – something we were urged to watch...
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DfID rediscovers its interest in schools – and a pot of gold
Think Global reports today on DFID plans to fund a Global Learning Programme for England which will “increase and improve the teaching and learning, at Key Stages 2 and 3, of issues related to global poverty”. The programme will run,...
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"... as a rule he was curiously uncritical about his own ideas"
It is said that Cambridge astrophysicist, Arthur Eddington thought that, in the early 1920s, there were only two people who really understood relativity: Einstein – and Arthur Eddington. He held the Plumian Chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy for over 30...
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EAUC endorses Rio+20 initiative
EAUC has endorsed the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative for Rio+20, and is clearly pleased at being asked: The EAUC is delighted to announce that it has joined a number of other international organisations to officially endorse the Higher Education Sustainability...
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State of the Union 2011
Sustainable Development in the European Union is the 2011 monitoring report on the EU's sustainable development Strategy (EU SDS). This is the fourth report charting progress in the implementation of the 2006 strategy which describes how the EU will more...
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So, What are universities for?
Stefan Collini seems to be wherever you look; well, his book reviews are: THE, the Observer, and the Economist – which goes to show something of my narrow reading these days. But for someone like me, who is a part-time student...
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Speaking in Inverness – sort of
Perhaps oddly, I gave my first talk via Skype the other day. To Inverness, virtually, then, at a conference on Educating for a Low Carbon Future organised by the University of Highlands and Islands, SEAM Centre at Inverness College, CIFAL...
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The name's Bond – Aaron Bond
If you'd been lately browsing geek.com – essential reading, I find – you'd likely have come across the sad tale of Devon's King Edward VI College and its expulsion of 14 year old Aaron Bond. Was AB disruptive? Was he violent?...
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Another day; another declaration
Actually, it seems a long while since a decent declaration crossed my desk. This new one comes ahead of Rio+20 and is supported by UNEP, UNESCO and the UNU and has been send round the SHED-SHARE network. It asks us all...
