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Last week's THE announced the resignation of the University of Gloucestershire's Vice Chancellor (Professor Patricia Broadfoot) amid what the THE called "conflicting views on financial health".   The THE reports that the University's 2008/09 financial statement showed a deficit of £6.3m...

I've been reading the Embercombe Centre's website with the details of their two wildcraft programmes:  One for young men: You could find yourself building a coracle and sailing on the lake; climbing trees; constructing shelters; whittling around the camp fire;...

Last week, at a sustainable schools event, in a presentation, a teacher said: " When you get your third Green Flag, you've more or less reached sustainability." No, I thought: No, NO!

I experienced some development education the other day.  It with the presenter saying "I like doing things" and that this was to be a "hands-on" session.  We looked at bits of photos of India, putting them together, jig-saw like and...

I ask this because I've a session coming up on our PGCE course with climate change as its focus.  One answer, of course, is to keep an eye on what the IPCC is itself saying – as opposed, perhaps, to...

The Sydney New Year Celebrations were as colourful (and over-the-top fabulous) as ever this (ie, last) year, and their bridge always seems to outdo our wheel as a framing for activity.  If you missed them, you can have a look...

I overheard a conversation a while back about the use of young people to persuade their parents through targeted pester power to change their bad social-living habits.  It struck me as odd to invoke McDonald's values to justify this rather...

Here's the opening video for the Copenhagen summit.  Comment seems superfluous.

I know that what the world really needs is "love, sweet love", whether sung by Dionne Warwick or others, but what we've finished up is the Lucerne Declaration.  As IRGEE 18.4 reports, this is actually the Lucerne Declaration on Geographical...

I recently spent a very stimulating few hours with primary school headteachers from a London Borough – talking with them about sustainable schools during a couple of days devoted to this theme.   Although there were a few Heads from the...