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This is not my question.  It's a headline in today's Times Higher [THE]. Needless to say, it's got nothing to do with the sort of sustainability that usually features in this blog.  Rather, it's about the financial viability of higher...

The NAEE blog recently carried a guest posting from Geoffrey Guy who lectures at Reaseheath College, and is the Director of Education for Bushcraft Education Ltd, and founder of the Bushcraft Education blog.  It was about the enclosure of land and...

Being an un-salaried (as opposed to a fully-lapsed) academic means that your life is no longer consumed by the thought of where the next paper is coming from and going to.  In my case this means that my reading to writing...

As part of the Schools for Future Youth Project, a report was published in January on a youth participatory approach to global citizenship education across Europe. The report by Doug Bourn, Director of the Development Education Research Centre, at UCL,  reviews current literature, policy...

Thanks to the NAEE blog for spotting the latest missive from the UN: The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World.  Laughably, this is a guide to how we can all save the world, without even moving from the sofa.  As NAEE notes, the UN seems...

The Routledge journal, Global Discourse, has a call for papers in a special issue devoted to the implications of climate change.  It's edited by John Foster.  The descriptor begins: It is no longer completely out of court among thinkers and scholars...

The following comment was made in 1897 and recorded by the folk at Oxford Dictionaries: "The term 'horse-power' has probably seen its best days" This was optimistic, at best, and I had to struggle with it in 'O' level physics in the 1960s...

I read two papers before Christmas on higher education and what is known as the sustainability problematique.   One was in review and so there is little I can say about it, except that it was very clearly put together with little...

Whilst it's relatively easy to come across bullshit these days as there's so much of it around, do you find there's a worry in the back of the mind that there might sometimes be something to it?  If so, then a...

"For much of its history the American academy has been fending off the attempts of various forces to hijack the enterprise for foreign ends.  Now the invading force resides on the inside in the form of students who want colleges...