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When you've done something rather green and virtuous, like wearing that extra jumper, using those life-time bags, or riding to work on the bike, do you then reward yourself in some way?  Perhaps in quite an ungreen way?  If so,...

I wrote last week about the draft sustainable development goals.  Goal 1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.  The associated targets are these: 1.1 by 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living...

This is Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all These are the 10 targets: 4.1 – by 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and...

I once knew a man who never asked his children a straight question such as "Would you like an apple?"  He'd always say something like: "Would you like an apple or an orange?"  That is, he'd always make it clear...

The Guardian ran a piece the other day about The Crystal.   They termed it: 'Children of change: empowering learners through education for sustainable development'.  Control of the contents was not the Guardian's, but rested with The Crystal which is...

'Education, Nature, and Society' is the title of Steve Gough's latest book for Routledge, and he generously gave me a copy last week.  Here's a taste of the book, from the website: "Environmental issues continue to divide opinion, sometimes in extreme...

This will come as a shock to everyone, including the university, I fancy.  Bath usually loiters way down the UK's 'green' league; so, to come in the top 20 of an international league, and to beat many of the UK's usual suspects...

Fat chance of this, you might think, when neither education nor sustainability look like being discussed at all.  My money's on the economy generally, dealing with the deficit in particular, welfare, the NHS and other parties' lack of credibility.  Anyway,...

I've been reading the Carter Review of ITT in England.  It'd dedicated stuff, this blogging. The aim of the review was to identify which "core elements of high quality ITT across phases and subject disciplines are key to equipping trainees with...

It's February, and so it's time for another letter from BIS to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), setting out the government's priorities for the HE sector for the coming year.  I've written before about the political to-ings and...