News and Updates

Marks and Spencer likes to talk up its green credentials saying that it has no "Plan B".  So, imagine my surprise and disappointment when I went into one of their motorway stores last week, looking for some English apples only to find...

Section 78 of England's 2002 Education Act begins like this: 78 – General requirements in relation to curriculum (1) The curriculum for a maintained school or maintained nursery school satisfies the requirements of this section if it is a balanced and broadly...

I was reminded the other day of a piece that Elsa Lee and I wrote back in 2008: Intergenerational Learning: the case of school to home transfer.   This was written when there was something of a vogue for getting children to...

The NUS, which is an organisation that clearly does much good, is fond of citing the following outcomes of their on-going survey * of student attitudes about HE and sustainable development: Around two-thirds of students [say that they] would be willing...

This is the latest from Think Global's Chief Executive, promoting a Members’ Lunch and AGM on November 6th (1230 ...) "I’m really pleased to say that our [AGM] guest speakers will be Newman Burdett, Head of Centre for International Comparisons, and...

Those smart folk at People & Planet have agreed with a suggestion from EAUC and AUDE that data should be collected by EAUC / AUDE for use in post-2014 green league tables.  How many micro-seconds did it take P&P to decide to accept, I wonder, and could...

The Plymouth Herald – essential reading, I find – recently reported that the city's University had splashed out a sum not unadjacent to £150k on 7 Chairs.   "Gosh", that's cheap, I thought.  I know professors are poorly paid, but really,...

Wiltshire has an explorer – David Hempleman-Adams – who seems to do most of his exploring out of the county. Hempleman-Adams has made an intervention into the local solar PV politics (ie, should Wiltshire Council encourage or discourage it?).  The Council's policy is not to have...

... of ?? Well, you can complete the sentence for yourself, but my money's on the last two lines of Hilaire Belloc's 'Jim' (one of his cautionary tales for children) which were never far from the surface of things, even if...

On Saturday, there's a conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK: promoting and safeguarding our diverse living cultures.  It's at the Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay.  It's about time. The 2003 UNESCO Convention defines Intangible Cultural Heritage...