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Significant publicity has been given recently to a new educational resource from Susted: Ethica -The Ethical Finance Game. Susted says: This is an educational board and role-play game. It lets players assume the roles of bank customers, investment bankers or co-operative...

Around 30 years ago, when I spent more time than was good for me driving round the west country watching student teachers work in schools, I developed – tentatively – what I called the Tamsin Tristram Tamara Index. I'd check...

This text was sent to the EAUC's SHED-SHARE Maillist last week: I have been engaged in the dialogues leading up to Rio+20 through the PrepComs and seen various texts which will be informing the policy positions and statements arising from...

I received this today from EAUC: EAUC, Australasia Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) and the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE - North America) have been collaborating to develop a mechanism for the worldwide tertiary education community to collectively...

Otago University's Kerry Shephard writes to SHED-share ... I have run an annual academic professional development event (a workshop) on 'Education for Sustainability' at my HE institution for the past five years. It supports what must be identified as a...

In the latest edition of Sustainability Now, from Sustainability South West, SSW Director Leslie Watson writes: Should our planning system enshrine ‘a presumption in favour of sustainable development’?  Of course it should – presuming it is clear about the definition...

Last year, the Open University's Gill Kirkup published Academic blogging: academic practice and academic identity in the London Review of Education.  Although this is a small study, I found it a thoughtful reflection on the purposes, practices (and pitfalls) of...

There seemed nothing to disagree with or take exception to in this PP Broadcast which is an odd thing to say, given that much of what you hear in the usual PPBs  is either tendentious or "consciously dishonest" as Orwell...

I usually read Robert Fisk for other reasons, but his recent article on jargon and cliché caught my eye.   Something to read, perhaps, alongside George Orwell's writing rules: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech...

As the EAUC's LIFE fires up for its 1st November launch, publicity for it increases.  The latest I have spotted is in the EAUC's own digital EARTH magazine where you will find the following: No time-wasting please! LiFE directly replaces...