News and Updates

This text was sent to the EAUC's SHED-SHARE Maillist last week: I have been engaged in the dialogues leading up to Rio+20 through the PrepComs and seen various texts which will be informing the policy positions and statements arising from...

I received this today from EAUC: EAUC, Australasia Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) and the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE - North America) have been collaborating to develop a mechanism for the worldwide tertiary education community to collectively...

Unesco has appointed a new director of ESD.  A Unesco insider announced this yesterday at a meeting I attended, but knowledge being power, they declined to share the details.  What a tease! They did say, however, that the post would...

As the EAUC's LIFE fires up for its 1st November launch, publicity for it increases.  The latest I have spotted is in the EAUC's own digital EARTH magazine where you will find the following: No time-wasting please! LiFE directly replaces...

I see that the near-saintly Google has fallen from grace with at least some of the chattering classes in the USA, if a recent Mudflats blog is anything to go by, and I'm grateful to Paul Vare for bringing this...

A curious piece in today’s Telegraph about a speech by the Princess Royal’s being ‘disrupted’ (their emphasis).  She was in town to take over from her dad as Chancellor and was presenting JKR with some award or other for gifting...

Now that Hetan Shah has moved on (and up) to the Royal Statistical Society – and I do wonder what odds you could have got against that a year ago – Think Global has acquired a new CEO: Tom Franklin who has...

The Co-op has been researching children's and parents' views on environmental issues and concludes that "pupils want lessons on green issues".  This is good news for them as it fits nicely with their Green Schools Revolution programme. The Press Association...

If you'd like to experience a hapless simulation, waste your time, and be frustrated into the bargain, you need look no further than the Met Office's new game, advising Brad the ice cream man on the weather.   As the...

This is the fate of the LSE's Satoshi Kanazawa, reader in the university's department of management, who has been barred from publishing "in non-peer-reviewed outlets", as the LSE puts it.  Wow.  For the lurid details of his malfeasance, see the...