News and Updates

Reserve your seats now.  The Lord Lawson of Blaby is coming to Bath to bad mouth the idea of climate change.  Here is his "cool" Abstract: The long-known scientific fact that there is a greenhouse effect and that carbon dioxide...

When English Heritage was drawing up plans for its new Stonehenge visitor centre, authenticity was a key value.  It was fortunate, then, that an exhaustive search of the archives from its digs at Durrington Walls revealed Neolithic stone carvings which...

From The Guardian, March 1st 2008 James Lovelock believes global warming is now irreversible, and that nothing can prevent large parts of the planet becoming too hot to inhabit, or sinking underwater, resulting in mass migration, famine and epidemics.  Britain...

I have written before about the poor quality of both the Welsh education system and its leadership, and about the potential for corruption when a minister of education moonlights as the school exams regulator.  See for example, this (UK PISA...

I am told that Shakespeare used this in two plays.  In a late Twelfth Night song, as shown here: When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was...

The following ten principles are taken from SustNav – which promotes them as a guide to navigating lasting solutions, and as a basis of its assessments, training and guidance (and as a means of steering its projects and campaigns). Develop sustainability...

I understand that QAAHEA’s guidance to universities on ESD is nearly complete, and that it will soon shift into the QAA & HEA bureaucracies for approval and eventual publication.  It seems that there is also talk of a launch, although...

It's the time of year that Hefce gets to hear about money (and other things) from government.  The grant letter arrived on Monday, and was not good news.  Here it is: Dear Tim, HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING 2014-15 We are writing with...

In a press release today 11 02 14, the South West Office for Strictures and Control on Food and Fodder ( Ofscoff ) [1] ordered the confiscation of marmalade illicitly produced by unqualified persons at an unregistered site in Bath.  A...

The HEAQAA's expert team is busy reacting to comments received on its draft materials.  Tensions abound, I hear, especially  about (1) continuing uncertainty as to who all this is for, and (2) a persistence of the idea that it's ESD...