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Bye Bye to the HEA?
A gloomy report in last week's THE about the not quite market-ready HEA, now that it is increasingly bereft of taxpayer funding. Not only are institutional fees set to double, but academics will have to pay "modest fees" to be...
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Outdoor learning seems just as incoherent as I feared
I've been reading the research report on outdoor learning recently published by the Blagrave Trust, UCL, the IoL, and Giving Evidence: The Existing Evidence-Base about the Effectiveness of Outdoor Learning. It will not make comfortable reading for anyone who has been banging on...
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What NUS did next
The NUS published two new reports this week. One is a national status report on university investments in the fossil fuel industry (based on Freedom of Information [FoI] requests); the other is a report on student and staff attitudes towards...
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TEESNet Conference 2016
The focus of the 2015 TEESNet Conference was Monitoring Education for Global Citizenship: A Contribution to Debate. I didn't go as it seems to me that trying to introduce EGC is just as bad as encouraging ESD – that is, it diverts...
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The GEEP is launched
I wrote a while back about a meeting I went to about the GEEP – pronounced jeep – the Global Environmental Education Partnerships. The website has now been launched. The idea is that GEEP is a platform where people can learn...
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Donald is trumped by the Env. Agency
I dreamed the other night, in that random way you do, that I was taking tea with Mr Trump – and that I upset him by what I said, and rendered him speechless. Not sure life can get much better than this....
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Schools for Future Youth
As part of the Schools for Future Youth Project, a report was published in January on a youth participatory approach to global citizenship education across Europe. The report by Doug Bourn, Director of the Development Education Research Centre, at UCL, reviews current literature, policy...
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Where animal activism meets critical race analysis
I got this the other day from the env-pol-theory Google group, and thought I should share it: We are seeking 300-500 word abstracts by March 15th, 2016 for possible inclusion into an edited collection seeking to explore the world of...
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What has biodiversity ever done for us?
There was a message on the EE Maillist the other day, ostensibly from Brian Waswala at UNEP's Environmental Education and Training Unit in Nairobi. It said "the Biodiversity Guide, supported by UNEP and GUPES, are asking for case studies from institutions" in the following...
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What if they were really set free?
This is the title of a two-page article in the Economist in early January. It's about Ethiopia and how the country's doing these days – despite the government – and how much better off (in almost every sense) its people might...
