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Teaching young people – reaching the family?
I was reminded the other day of a piece that Elsa Lee and I wrote back in 2008: Intergenerational Learning: the case of school to home transfer. This was written when there was something of a vogue for getting children to...
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Shall the poor never cease out of the land?
There was a piece in the Economist last week that looked at an OECD / University of Utrecht account of the conditions of life in 25 countries since 1820. A part of this says: For the most part, the findings...
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Putting your salary where your values are
The NUS, which is an organisation that clearly does much good, is fond of citing the following outcomes of their on-going survey * of student attitudes about HE and sustainable development: Around two-thirds of students [say that they] would be willing...
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Exploring a transformative orientation to sustainability in universities: a question of loose and tight framings
My latest review essay is now published in EER: Exploring a transformative orientation to sustainability in universities: a question of loose and tight framings. It is available here c/o Taylor & Francis. This is the Abstract: This review essay examines three...
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Are Sun and Wind much more expensive than we think? And how would we know?
In the Summer, the Economist's Free Exchange column had a feature on the economics of renewable energy which suggested that the costs of wind and (especially) solar power are much more problematic that thought. The article begins: "... whereas...
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Still recovering from STILS
I spend more time than ever in London these days experiencing the joys and thrills of grandparenting. No matter how fulfilling, however, it always leads to a bout of SILS – Spending Time In London Syndrome. This is a deep psychological...
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Measuring global whatever it is
This is the latest from Think Global's Chief Executive, promoting a Members’ Lunch and AGM on November 6th (1230 ...) "I’m really pleased to say that our [AGM] guest speakers will be Newman Burdett, Head of Centre for International Comparisons, and...
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People and Planet accepts a generous offer from EAUC / AUDE
Those smart folk at People & Planet have agreed with a suggestion from EAUC and AUDE that data should be collected by EAUC / AUDE for use in post-2014 green league tables. How many micro-seconds did it take P&P to decide to accept, I wonder, and could...
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Let's hear it for the Ebola virus
I wrote recently about a dire presentation at the recent ECER conference where ESD was taken to task for being overly-anthropocentric. The speaker, Helen Kopnina of the University of Amsterdam and the Hague University of Applied Science, spoke up for...
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Cheap at half the price
The Plymouth Herald – essential reading, I find – recently reported that the city's University had splashed out a sum not unadjacent to £150k on 7 Chairs. "Gosh", that's cheap, I thought. I know professors are poorly paid, but really,...
