News and Updates

As I've long held the view that the BBC's flagship nature documentaries, particularly those coming out of the Natural History unit in Bristol, were uninterested in the relationship between humans and the rest of nature, it's good to see that...

Animality was an exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho that might be seen as a complement to the Wellcome exhibition which I mentioned recently.  You can see a slideshow of the images here.  This is how their press release about the...

Alas, this is one of the many unknowns about UNESCO – but at least it's a known unknown.  Perhaps it's a Stack.  One known known about it all is that those who don't know are precisely matched by those who...

There was an almost plangent tone to the message to the EE Mailbase back in December about WEEC 2017, an event, I readily confess, I'd been trying to ignore.  The message title was: Perspectives, Challenges and Innovation in Research – WEEC2017...

The lone cheetah we saw at Longleat over Christmas looked in better fettle than the Rhinos that were relentlessly pacing round their enclosure, but it wasn't exactly behaving like a cheetah.  It wasn't, for example, travelling at 29m / second chasing...

I was pleased to see that the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) has awarded Stanford's Nicole Ardoin for her outstanding contributions to research.  At last some positive news from the USA. More detail here.  

2017 will see the 40th anniversary of the Tbilisi conference and declaration which, at the time, we seen by many to be full of promise for a better future.  We shall no doubt be urged to remember Tbilisi and celebrate...

Peru's education minister is in trouble just when the country's PISA scores have risen sharply.  The Economist called it a "small act of national suicide".  It's article begins: "FOR most of this century, Peru’s economy has shone: income per person has doubled in...

The education of girls is a key priority within the sustainable development goals that the UK has signed up to.  It has been a recent priority for DfID as well, as part of the UK's international aid programme.  A recent...

The following was contributed to an EAUC forum by Dave Krugman: I think the challenges that universities are having in cutting absolute targets whilst increasing estate size brings up the global conflict between growth and climate change.  Since we cannot...