News and Updates

I am recently returned from an HEA policy think tank on Graduate attributes and the green economy. This is the two-page stimulus paper I drafted for the event: The idea of the graduate attribute This is appealing, seductive almost, and...

In the spirit of balance and fair-mindedness, I have been struggling for a week or so to find anyone with a good word to say about the lately departed Chris Huhne, but the web is full of direct and/or oblique...

I'm grateful to Alan Reid for the following: A team from the University of Minnesota is traveling across all seven continents to understand how education and sustainability coincide.  Aaron Doering, a learning technologies associate professor, and his co-explorer Charlie Miller,...

As I noted the other day, a request came from UNESCO to capture key developments and responses to ESD ahead of a meeting in Bonn later this month to discuss the "adoption of the UN Decade" and "vision building for...

This arrived the other day, care of the SHED SHARE mail server: Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate your advice and input regarding a brief ESD sheet I have been asked to complete.  UNESCO is hosting meeting in Bonn later this month...

That's Les (VC & Prof) Ebdon, who might yet not be the new director of OFFA, and Vince (the once and future sage of Twickenham) Cable who might yet appoint him as such – or will he? OFFA is the...

Last week, The Scotsman carried a story that the Labour party north of the Wall has changed its mind about universal free higher education. The paper reported: Shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran attacked the First Minister’s stance on higher education...

65 billion tonnes is an impressive amount in any context.  It probably even exceeds the amount of caviar that bankers get through in a year (Sorry, bankers everywhere, but this seems to be Be Mean month.  I'll get over it)....

The new publication from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (with McKinsey) got an airing in Davos at the WEF ahead of its launch today, and was reported on the BBC. It's a credit to the interviewer that he got to the...

Let me add my welcome to Judy Braus as the new Executive Director of the North American Association of Environmental Education [ NAAEE ].  Judy took up her post in December after senior roles at Audubon and WWF (the wildlife,...