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In a recent Opinion Essay for JESD [Vol. 5.1], Rolf Jucker offers "some reflections on environmental education and ESD" under the title: ESD between Systemic Change and Bureaucratic Obfuscation.  Jucker paints a gloomy view of the slow development of ESD...

To Norwich the other day to visit schools that take food seriously: growing, cooking, eating – and composting.  A bus journey to begin the day; 15 miles with a grandstand view of wild flowers on verges and banks, around field...

Sadly, but inevitably perhaps, Defra seems to have sided with the views of farmers over the interpretation of scientific evidence in relation to bovine TB.  Whilst proposing to cull badgers gives the public the impression of decisive action (unless you've...

As I said I would, I've been reading the latest missive from UNECE on educator competences.  The last time normative instruction of this portentousness came down from on high it was on a mountain in Sinai and there was an old...

Of course, I know that this is as good an example of the *******' obvious as you'd wish to find; however, as there is now a fashion for making risible statements about responsibility, I thought I'd join in, least anyone thought...

A kind colleague, someone better read than me, pointed me to a recent Thinkpiece by Lancaster’s Paul Trowler.  In it, are the points he made in a talk to leaders involved in a sustainable university initiative.  He set out some...

Well, that might not always be the question, but when curriculum audits are in the offing, it certainly is an important one. This issue cropped up (again) last week at the HEA sustainable development advisory group, and in a separate...

... or for anybody else, come to that. In 2007, HEFCE commissioned the Policy Studies Institute, PA Consulting Group and the University of Bath to undertake a strategic review of sustainable development in higher education in England.  This review was one...

The papers today have what I thought might have been be a universally-welcomed good news story about the government's reducing some of the Health & Saftey red tape around out of school activties with a cutting of the "guidance" from...

A new neologism (tautology, perhaps) this morning.  Catching up with Simon Carr over breakfast, I came upon his coining of " fafferati " which he defines as that "wide conspiracy of over-educated, self-soaping professionals who don't know what to do...