News and Updates

I've decided to collect GEEPs.  So far, I have four. You might recall that I wrote about the international one last year when I attended a meeting in San Diego.  The Global Environmental Education Partnership [GEEP] is coming to the...

The Times Higher has a feature this week on VC pay, or "compensation package" as we're being encouraged to call it.  Here's the THE: "Vice-chancellors have again come in for flak over what they are paid.  We look at how their...

Rather inevitably, perhaps, since my post on Wednesday following my meeting at the NUS, I've been reading around the notion of a "liberated and sustainable curriculum".  Here's something of what NUS has to say about it: Universities rely on rigid curricula...

This morning's blog comes from Steve Martin ... The University and College Union (UCU) along with support from the National Union of Students held a one day conference last week (May 13th) at the University of Manchester, to look at...

Another stimulating day at the NUS sustainable development observatory board yesterday – although we’re now an advisory group, I note.  Too many Boards, it seems. We had a glimpse of the latest survey results about what students think about the...

I don't know about you, but I've been waiting rather impatiently for the launch of the Green Scorecard, and we're told the other day by EAUC that this has been delayed for "technical issues".  Happily, though, these are being "worked on"....

Another day, and there's yet another ESD conference in an exotic location.  This one's in that part of Spain that is forever British.  No, not Ibiza – Gibraltar. The breathless strapline for this event (I'll not be going) is: Universities as Beacons of...

This is a controversial issue as the UK government unwinds the subsidies available for the installation of renewable energy, although subsidies for coal (etc) remain in place.  A new Circulate report explores the issue.  It begins: "The short answer to this...

Whilst everyone seems to acknowledge that there are problems with GDP as a measure of (changing) economic activity, there are no clear ways out of the difficulty.  For example, whilst pollution may be, generally speaking, a bad thing, it can...

The World Symposium on Sustainability Science: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals will be held in Manchester from the 5th to 7th of April, 2017.  It is being organised by Manchester Metropolitan University, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and the...