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The 100% solution
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...
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Making Nature — how we see animals
This is what the Wellcome Collection says about its new exhibition: Making Nature — how we see animals ... The question of how humans relate to other animals has captivated philosophers, anthropologists, ethicists and artists for centuries. This exhibition will...
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Transforming our World: one PISA result at a time
I see that Learning for Sustainability Scotland's AGM will have an Sustainable Development Goal theme. The focus is: Transforming our World: Responding to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals through Education It's on Thursday 19 January 2017 [1300 to 1630] at Moray House...
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Let's hear it for Alison McGregor
To its great credit, BBC Radio has just had a series of programmes celebrating Alison McGregor, and the pioneering feminist work of Edinburgh's Fair Intellectual Club in the early 18th Century. Forget Ada Lovelace; it's time to celebrate Alison McG,...
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Liberal internationalists and global learning
As, on my good days, I'm a liberal internationalist, I read Timothy Garton Ash's piece in The Gurdian: Liberal internationalists have to own up: we left too many people behind, with more than passing interest – as I do with most of...
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8 bien-pensant priorities for the future
I've been reading A joint vision for Secondary and Higher Education for All in Europe. This is a report on the SDGs from a formidable grouping, the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU), the European Students’ Union (ESU),...
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It was PISA Tuesday
Monday 5th December was the International Day of Soil. Tuesday 6th December was the day the latest PISA results were released. From Soil to Toil. UK schools hover around 15th to 20th in the international league. England does best (if...
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Has DfID got my number?
In a Times report the other day about how the ever-generous taxpayer continues to lavishly fund UK and other consultancy firms out of the foreign aid budget, was the story of average payments by DfID of £4,765 for writing a...
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Universities struggle to meet green goals
The Guardian's headline over its report on People 'n' Planet's new league table was: Universities struggle to meet green goals Specifically, they reported this: "UK universities are helping lead the world on environmental research – but when it comes to...
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Wailing and Nashing of teeth at Defra
I, whimsically perhaps, thought that going to the Tate's Paul Nash exhibition might be a good preparation for last Friday's Defra meeting and the discussion of the government's grand 25-year post-Brexit plan for the environment. Whilst the Defra event was never...
