News and Updates

Here's Simon Barnes writing in the Spectator about the sad plight of the rhino.  Comments seem superfluous.

As a post-script to my recent posting about Zimbabwe, I searched for Quality Education on the Zanu PF website (required reading from now on, I think) and was led to this speech by Mugabe.  No wonder he's a leader of men (and...

Nick Clegg's new plastic bag tax / charge comes into effect on October 5th across England.  From that date, retailers with >250 full-time (equivalent) employees will have to charge at least 5p for the single-use plastic bag.  The idea is to encourage...

I don't know about you, but I always find Arjen Wals' Transformative Learning blog both entertaining and informative.  It is, for example, one of the few places you can go to keep up to date with the growing amount of plastics...

Manchester Metropolitan University [MMU] says that it is leading the world when it comes to teaching students to become “carbon literate”.  It seems that students from MMU's Department of Food and Tourism Management have become the first in the world to gain a...

The folk that run Learning Outside the Classroom say you can improve personal development through learning outside the classroom.  Well, I suppose they would, just as you can do this in all sorts of other ways – such as inside the classroom....

Did you ever see the iconic advert for litter involving Iron Eyes Cody? I didn't either at the time, but it's here, along with a feature by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on the many confusions around [i] the idea of...

It seems that the People 'n' Planet league table of universities, with its arr[og]ant 'degree' classifications, may have gone the way of all flesh.  Those who say they know about such matters think it's a dundeal.  P&P probably got tired of...

To London yesterday, to the LSE, to hear Professor Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University.  Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication, and he...

Learning from the sharp end – implications for sustainability in Higher Education is an international symposium taking place today and tomorrow in Bristol.  It seems to be trying to go 'beyond ESD', for which much praise.  It is jointly organised by University...