News and Updates

On October 23rd, I wrote to Hefce's CEO, Professor Madeleine Atkins, about the Council's new (but still draft) Sustainable Development Framework.  My purpose was to say that I hoped that a sentiment which Hefce expressed in 2009 would be included in the 2014 document....

Any residual, thoughts I had that I might yet attend ECER 2015 in Budapest have been completely scuppered by two new bit of info. The first is the knowledge that Michael W Apple is a keynote speaker.  Listening to the...

I had an email recently from Tom Franklin, Think Global’s CEO.  Maybe you did too.  He invited me for lunch (and an AGM).  Sadly, I was busy.  I was struck that his very short message included all the following phrases: global learning...

At a summer meeting with a university's ESD team, we heard that its students have described the skills they see relating to sustainability.  The ESD team noted that these could be applicable to just about any subject area, echoing the idea of sustainability...

If you are reading this, you probably missed the coming together of the world's leading miserabilists in New York at the weekend.  Never, mind, think of all the carbon the world saved by your not going, and the tedium you were spared....

The Economist's Schumpeter blog recently carried an article "A new green wave" which suggests that "a few pioneering businesses are developing sustainability policies worthy of the name."   Really?, you might think.  Is that news?  Surely this has been going on...

Professor Madeleine Atkins Chief Executive Officer Higher Education Funding Council for England Northavon House Coldharbour Lane Bristol BS16 1QD Dear Professor Atkins In 2009, Hefce published an updated strategic statement and action plan on sustainable development in the higher education sector...

This was to be the Sun's front page headline today, until a dead donkey story came up. It seems that no member of the UK government is going to the End-of-Days conference on ESD in Japan in November.  Not even the...

You might be wondering what has happened to HEFCE's new Sustainable Development Framework – after all, the national consultation was many months ago.  Well, there is the inevitable passage through the Council's committees – not to mention their having to get a...

There was a small macflurry of  excitement on the Clyde this week as the University of Glasgow announced it was to sell its shares in Big Oil.  This is what the university had to say: Glasgow becomes first UK university to...