New Publications

HEFCE, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, has launched a consultation around its plans to promote dialogue within the higher education sector on what more can be done to promote sustainable development.  This time around, students are specifically invited...

What follows is a critical appreciation of the Education for Sustainable Development – draft guidance for UK higher education providers, which has been produced by an expert group in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) and...

I’ve been reading the RSPB’s new survey of 8 to 12 year olds and their conclusions that only 21% of them are as “connected to nature” as the RSPB thinks they need to be.  This is based on a survey...

Here’s an Accenture survey of about 1000 CEOs, with an analysis of what they think about sustainability.  Not much, it seems.  I found that ... – companies think they’re only really able to learn from each other – universities aren’t...

Later this month, UNESCO’s governing bodies will consider a draft of a Global Action Programme [GAP] on ESD with a view to forwarding it to the UN General Assembly in 2014.  The plan is that the GAP will replace the Decade, and...

I understand that the QAAHEA's soon-to-be-revealed ESD guidance document for universities will set out over 50 new learning outcomes.  That is, it will specify 50+ additional things that graduates should be able to know, understand and be able to do after...

My favoured explanation for now is that they think there's no particular urgency, compared, say, to deficit reduction, unemployment, sorting out the EU, reforming the banks, the need to keep the lights on, and the threat from Ukip [that is,...

They never did, and never will.  But herrings are a different matter, as those of you familiar with Ewan McColl's "silver darlings", know. A recent Bagehot article in the Economist about fishing in the river Clyde (well, actually about no longer...

I guess only a man (or perhaps a 'new man') could have written the claptrap that appeared in the Daly News the other day.  I can hardly bear to copy it.  He's describing going back to hand washing laundry using...

The Wildlife Trusts have produced a statement on population, resource use & consumption in the UK.  It begins: The Wildlife Trusts believe that it is insufficient simply to prevent the further decline in the quantity and quality of existing habitats,...