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The 2013 Ofsted annual report on the further education and skills sector (available here)  has little to say about sustainability.  It’s a gloomy, and really rather shocking, read.  This is from the Executive Summary: 2. … there is still too...

This is the title of a recently published series of essays by the Conservative Environment Network.  There are some notable contributors, including Roger Scruton, Richard Sandor, Stuart Rose, Michael R. Bloomberg, James Dyson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a Michael Gove. The...

The HEAQAA's expert team is busy reacting to comments received on its draft materials.  Tensions abound, I hear, especially  about (1) continuing uncertainty as to who all this is for, and (2) a persistence of the idea that it's ESD...

No.  I’m not there!  Hardly.  I’m not even sure where it is.  But the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is  – launching another report with McKinsey, and a new initiative: Project Mainstream. I can remember when ESD experts were sniffy about the...

Thanks to David Oldroyd for pointing me towards: the RSA’s Social Brain Centre Report: A New Agenda on Climate Change: facing up to stealth denial and winding down on fossil fuels. This draws on a UK-based survey that identifies the...

I've just read "Time to leave GDP behind" which Robert Costanza and colleagues have published in Nature. It argues that we need new, more integrated measures of sustainable human well-being, beginning ... Robert F. Kennedy once said that a country’s gross...

It began with my reading the New Scientist's 'Nothing', a book that brings together the writings of more than 20 New Scientist writers around themes that have the idea of nothing at their heart.  Topics included: the history of zero,...

I have just read a significantly flawed, but rather informative, report from nef on the framing of the government’s messages around their socio-economic (aka, austerity) policies.  From nef’s point of view this amounts to a very clever way of presenting...

Pity the QAA.  It has been rather shocked and somewhat overwhelmed by the amount and depth of feedback it has received on its draft (with the HEA) of proposals about ESD in higher education.  People, it seems, care – much...

I wasn't able to be at the launch of the Manifesto we all Want the other day.  Had I been there, however, I hope that I might have managed to write the sort of perceptive review that the University of...