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Given how dire so many are, it is often hard to know how (or whether) to respond to a questionnaire, even when it is in your area.  A sense of responsibility says, do it; the need for quality of life...

I have just reviewed a paper from the USA which describes an educational intervention aimed at persuading young people to use less water.   At the end, of what seemed a well thought through empirical study, most young people said...

This, rather un-Gove, phrase stood out me as I read his speech at the Education World Forum last week in London.  Mr Gove did not attribute it, but as it seems firmly associated with one of George Bush Jnr's speechwriters (Michael...

I wrote the other day [ 22 December ] about the Higher Education Academy's revision of its professional standards framework, and its attempts to add a reference to sustainability within these as a new professional value.  I noted the difficulties it...

I've reviewing what I think has evolved into a rather good paper for EER.  In it, the author uses (following Stephen Sterling's lead) the phrase sustainability education as a "generic and inclusive term that can accommodate different interpretations".   Well, I...

Happy New Year.  I've been reading one of my Christmas presents: The Economist's Book of Isms by John Andrews.  From Abolutionism to Zoomorphism, and beyond, this casts an informative eye on 400+ of these constructs.  Carbon neutralism isn't in the...

The Higher Education Academy has embarked on a process to revise its professional standards framework, last agreed in 2006.   The Academy notes: Over the past four years, in addition to an emphasis on initial professional development, there have been...

Three days and eight 10+1 lectures later I, and hundreds of others, wait for a train driver.  The aim here is not so much cradle to cradle, as Bradford to Bristol. In the last days I have come to question...

Last week, The Economist ran an irreverent, but rather witty, article on what the various factions within the Anglican church stood for, and how they viewed themselves – and each other.  A while back, I sketched something similar (but not...

Thanks to Liane Fredericks at the LSE for pointing to this YouTube video that attempts to explain sustainability.  It is based on the Natural Step.   I didn't like it at all: all very reasonable, rational and uncomplicated.  It makes...