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... have written to No. 10 to complain about government policy on the environment.  The NAEE website has the detail. The signatories style themselves: "the leaders of ten leading UK charities concerned with protection of the environment", which made me wonder why...

Did you know it was the EYD? I didn't either.  I still didn't, when someone explained that EYD stood for the European Year of Development.  This, it seems, is an EU gambit that's setting out to increase our understanding of the...

Last week's THE has this headline: World’s university ‘oligopoly’ accused of blocking OECD bid to judge learning quality ... with a great image of great animals blocking a US highway (that is, the economy and implied progress).  There were no pictures of...

As I noted earlier, the UN 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development took place in July in Addis Ababa.  The UN says it was a success: Countries reach historic agreement to generate financing for new sustainable development agenda. Countries today...

If you are of a particular frame of mind, it is fashionable these days to call for renewable energy subsidies to be cut / phased out / stopped (according to taste).  They are, after all, inflating our tax and electricity...

The Ramblers are encouraging us all, through its big path watch, to adopt a local grid square, walk all the rights of way within it, and report back to them on any problems found, and more generally, on how it...

I've not written about ELSA recently as there has not been anything to say.  For example, its development group has not met for over a year, and it has not made any recent contribution to national debate about sustainability and...

RSB, the Royal Society of Biology, is hoping to benefit from recent popularity contests amongst bird-lovers, by launching a 'what's your favourite insect?' poll, or as the Guardian memorably puts it, a 'creepy-crawly celebrity contest' – more feral sub-editing, I...

No, this is not about some dyslectic verison of the BBC's brilliant French farce of (almost) the same name, but the tale is Gallic in one respect. The term, Ahelo, is the acronym for 'Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes' which...

The THE recently carried quite a careful article on whether UK universities would be better off in / out of the EU.  Or, it might have been about whether UK university research would be better off in / out of the EU...