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I commented a while back on draft guidance produced by HEAQAA experts.  This included 50+ (E)SD learning outcomes for students leaving universities.   In my response, I raised a number of issues about their content and about who they were...

The headline to a Guardian HE Network blog, published last week, says:  Why have academics been so slow to work with students on sustainability? It's always a newspaper temptation to identify a culprit or two.  The blog post itself, by...

The day began with a free vintage (c. 2007) e-book offer from Arjen Wals: Social learning towards a sustainable world.  The publisher's blurb begins with commendable understatement: "This comprehensive volume – containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents  presents...

Well, the last word from me on the "Enabling the future we want: education for sustainable development in the UK – a manifesto for dialogue, collaboration and action post Rio+20".  I am sure that others will have things to say...

This question ran through a 2012 conference in Berne at which I spoke.  The conference marked the conclusion of the project "Development of Indicators to Evaluate Offerings and Performance in the Area of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)", which ran...

This is the third post focused on the "Enabling the future we want: education for sustainable development in the UK – a manifesto for dialogue, collaboration and action post Rio+20". It looks at the connection between ESD and the economy....

This is the second post focused on the "Enabling the future we want: education for sustainable development in the UK – a manifesto for dialogue, collaboration and action post Rio+20". It looks at who the manifesto is trying to influence....

I got my invitation the other day to the House of Commons launch of "Enabling the future we want: education for sustainable development in the UK – a manifesto for dialogue, collaboration and action post Rio+20". This is the first...

My admiration for the mind (and pen) of the economic historian Henry Hobhouse knows no bounds.  You can keep your Jaded Diamonds, it's HH for me.  I have just finished his 3rd book: Forces of Change, having read his first...

So asks NUS vice president Dom Anderson in a compelling blog post on Monday.  You should read it all, but here’s a flavour: Why is sustainability not seen as a class issue?  It will be the housing estates in our inner...