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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has initiated a number of processes to help devise the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will maxise benefit for humanity during the years 2015-2030.  One of these, the sustainable development solutions network (SDSN) has identified ten...

Through editorial oversight, the original Devil's Dictionary entry for quality assurance was omitted. Happily, this can now be put right. Ambrose Bierce's original preface to this essential book of reference can be found in Richard Gingras' Introduction.  Though Bierce stressed...

The Keep Britain Untidy group has released a report: Eco-Schools England: exploring success to inform a new horizon. This is the gist of the Executive Summary: In February 2013, Keep Britain Untidy commissioned independent research into the Eco-Schools programme.  This research...

So, farewell to the Learning and Skills Improvement Service which ceased trading at the end of July.  The sustainability part of LSIS was always strong thanks to the steady guiding hand of Conrad Benefield, the LSIS Sustainability Programme Development Manager...

Those of us following Kelly Teamey and Udi Mandel's progress round the globe via their blog will not have been particularly informed by last week's piece in the THE, even though we might have been a little bit disappointed at...

A recent THE carried a story about Ofsted and university ITT courses.  It runs, ... Universities have suffered under Ofsted teacher training inspections since Michael Gove unveiled plans to increase school-based training, in what some claim is a politicised inspection regime...

The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) are working "with experts" (that excludes me) on the development of a new guidance document for higher education providers on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).  An initial draft looms,...

Thanks to Steve Martin for pointing me to the European Commission report on the Modernisation of Higher Education: improving the quality of teaching and learning in Europe’s Higher Education Institutes.  This was published in June. The report sets out "a...

The latest Oxfam Discussion Paper, A Safe and Just Space for Humanity, by Kate Raworth, opens with this: Humanity’s challenge in the 21st century is to eradicate poverty and achieve prosperity for all within the means of the planet’s limited...

I cast a jaundiced eye over the Guardian's university league table the other week, and not just to see how Bath was doing – rising majestically, since you ask (but keep your Kipling open at the right page). Reading on,...