News and Updates

When I switched on the TV this morning (about 0400), it was obvious that, despite the wildlife vote and tendentious videos about dirty beaches, we had voted to leave the EU.  Of course, whether we actually shall is quite another...

This was the title of a St. George's House seminar then Tuesday which I went to by kind invitation of the NUS.   A great setting, of course, and we met in a room (the Vicar's Hall) where it seems it was...

Two years ago, two pyramidal orchids popped up in the meadow which takes over my front lawn every summer.  Last year, there was no sign of them. This year they are back, and I did not notice their growing.  I had...

"What's happened to HEFCE’s Sustainable Development framework that they consulted on 18 months ago", I hear you ask.  Well, gathering dust, of course, electronically speaking. There are, however, rumours that HEFCE top brass may well be thinking about whether to start...

Last week, The Guardian carried an article by Peter Scott (no relation) with the title: This bad bill will put universities on the road to serfdom.   It begins: "The government’s argument that its new higher education bill will give legal backing to...

Writing something about population, I stumbled across the Worldometers website.   This has the goal of "making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world". It's owned by Dadax, which says it...

I have read that UNESCO's annual report for 2016 is going to be about environmental education (that is, "education for people and planet"). Of course, it rather depends what it has to say, but, taken with UNEP's recent focus on environmental education, people...

At the recent GEEP meeting, we watched a video of a child in floods of tears as he was about to be driven home from school.  He was railing about what he'd learned about environmentally destructive policies: "Why are they...

I've written before about valiant attempts to insert some real-world questions about sustainability into the UK's national student survey within universities.  It's all come to naught, it seems as Hefce hunkers (or is that bunkers?) down to concentrate on core questions;...

There's not much humour about Brexit / Brexodus.  The most memorable story for me is still from 1975 when we had an IN / OUT vote and the Conservative party was all enthused about staying IN, and Labour was for OUT....