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It was Earth Day yesterday
And, do you know, I almost missed it! It was only late that day that I remembered, when I saw an email from CASSE reminding us all that Earth Day is 45 years old. Although I'm sceptical of these 'days'...
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2014 and all that
It turns out that 2014 may have been a unique year as it seems to have been the first on record where economic growth took place with no increase in carbon emissions. I've read two articles on this phenomenon recently. One,...
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Notes from the UK Student Sustainability Summit
I missed the UK Student Sustainability Summit [ SSS15 ] which was part of this year's EAUC conference. You will find SSS15 video presentations here, and pics of the wider conference here. There was a strong dose (sex, money and sustainability) of the reliable Sara...
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Education Manifestos – Take 3; the Greens
It is a measure of the Green's unworldliness that it's not possible to copy from the pdf version of their election manifesto. As a consequence, this comment has fewer bullet points than previous ones. A good thing, maybe. If only...
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UK universities set to miss their carbon targets
Research by consultancy Brite Green, predicts the HE sector will achieve just 51% of the 2020 target set by HEFCE as a comment on edie.net illustrates. Looking at the data, there are large differences in how individual HEIs have done with some...
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Education Manifestos – Take 2; the Conservatives
As you know, I have decided to read all the main parties' education manifestos. The second I have come across was from the Conservatives. The headlines say that they'll: ensure a good primary school place for your child, with zero tolerance for...
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More Realistic Development Goals
I wrote, back in February, about the UN's sustainable development goals [SDG], particularly about Goal 4, the one relating to education, learning, ESD / etc / etc. This has 10 targets associated with it. Altogether, there are now 17 goals, and...
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Robbing Peter to (sort of) pay Peter – it's called 'upstreaming'
The Labour manifesto sets out plans to guarantee all young people in schools face-to-face careers advice and support for the transition from school to work. It seems that this will cost £50m per year. This is not new money; nor will it come...
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Education Manifestos – Take 1; Labour
In a fit of enthusiasm, I decided to read all the main parties' education manifestos. Someone has to do it. The first to cross my desktop (sort of) was Labour's. Alerted to its launch on Thursday, I dashed to the...
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It's no 'good for ESD' in UK universities
It's been another good week for the University of Bath as it rises meteorically from 2nd place to 1st in the Times Higher Education student experience survey (2015). Bath is rated highly by students in all 21 aspects covered by...
