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When a government says its "committed to helping schools ensure that more children develop a set of character traits, attributes and behaviours that underpin success in education and work", you know there's a certain desperation in the air, or an election...

This is Steve Martin's letter in today's THE ... A glaring omission from the People & Planet University League 2015 tables is any meaningful measure of teaching quality and how the programmes that universities offer contribute to the life chances...

Here's some more on "energy" from waste [ EfW ].  I commented on the language difficulties around all this a week or so ago, after a recent visit to Devon's EfW plant in Exeter. Now Private Eye has a story about...

Following the recent publication of the 2014 People & Planet (green) league tables for 2014, here's a transcript of a conversation with the Director of Sustainability at one of the successful universities. Interviewer Thank you very much for agreeing to talk about...

... the new tables from People & Planet are much more colourful. I see that the usual suspects have done reasonably well again, and that many of those that do well in everything else, have all done equally badly.  My...

Sadly, it was only along the M4, and Chuck Berry wasn't there singing along, but I saw something I'd not seen before - the iconic wind turbine at the Reading business park was silent, hanging limply in the still, cold...

Bristol is the 2015 European Green Capital, and its universities have come together with a promise to make "positive and sustainable environmental changes" during 2015.  This project has been made possible by generous tax-payer funding of £249,734 c/o the Higher Education Funding Council for England...

Just when you thought you had survived the ESD decade, it turns out that 2015 is the European Year for Development [EYD2015].  Think Global, is happy about this.  Its CEO noted in TG's first January mailing: "The first 'European Year' on EU external policy...

In times past, this used to be called incineration, and the mood of the nation was against it as fear of toxic materials trucked in by night, and dioxins produced by day, stalked the land.  Although it's now called energy from...

It has long been a core claim by Ofsted that all its inspection judgements have very high inter-rater reliability; that is, an outcome would be the same no matter which inspection team pitched up to a school (or wherever) on the day.  Another,...