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Giving algorithms the vote
The Economist's Schumpeter column reports that Deep Knowledge Ventures, a Hong Kong venture-capital outfit, has appointed an algorithm to its board of directors. VITAL (Validating Investment Tool for Advancing Life Sciences), having run the numbers, gets to vote on which...
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Who would trade their green league and national student satisfaction rankings?
Why is it so difficult for most institutions to do well in both the NSS national student satisfaction survey, and in the green league? Only Exeter has managed to get close to squaring this circle recently by being 13th in the green league (2013) and...
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After Sustainability ...
After Sustainability Denial, Hope, Retrieval is a new book by John Foster. The blurb says: Dangerous climate change is coming. Some people still deny that it is happening, others that it is now too late to prevent it. Both denials spring...
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"I think sustainability will make everyone happy."
You can still come across poor presentations at conferences, and often these are not because of incompetence, but owing to a poor attitude towards the audience, one that is frequently rooted in insecurity. I sat through an ECER presentation of...
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More from ECER in Porto
The transport system is so good here, and my expectations of it, so low, that I arrived at my first meeting over twenty minutes early. I then made the mistake of looking at my map for the building I was...
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Another policy slogan anyone? 'global competence' is heading right for you
This is an extract from the latest e-message from Think Global’s Chief Executive, Tom Franklin: As you may know, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will be including ‘Global Competence’ in its ‘PISA’ international measurement of different countries’ education...
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ECER-ing in Porto
I am at the ECER conference in Porto – my last. This is the first full meeting of the new Network 30 – environmental and sustainability education research, which has been guided into existence by the commendable Per Sund. The...
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People and Planet? Petulance and Pique more like
The girls and boys who run People & Planet have always tended to take themselves rather too seriously, falling into the trap of thinking that their Green League has had far more influence than it really has; they have also been far...
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Hefce in the firing line as new report criticises its support for learning enhancement
There's a new report from the HEA on: The Role of Hefce in Teaching and Learning Enhancement: A Review of Evaluative Evidence. It does not make good reading. This report was commissioned by the HEA in 2013 at Hefce's request, with the...
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Pandas and the Scottish education system – both found wanting
I watched the TV debates between the YES and NO campaigns for the break up of the UK out of a sense of duty – in part to see how many mentions sustainability got. Well, I heard two – sort of. First,...
