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Sara Parkin joins the HEA Board
I hear that the redoubtable Sara Parkin has been appointed to the Board of the Higher Education Academy [HEA], and the welcome sound of feathers being ruffled is already audible. This is evidence I'm told, by those who know about such...
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Defra continues to appease the NFU over badgers
Thursday evening's BBC Radio 4 PM programme had an interview with the Defra secretary of state, Owen Patterson, on England's failed pilot badger culls. You can listen to it here, at around 40 mins in. The consistently admirable Eddie Mair...
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IPCC Report Headlines
Here are the IPCC's headline statements taken from its Summary for Policymakers Observed Changes in the Climate System Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia....
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ASE + NAEE = #ASEChat
I took part in a Twitter encounter [ #ASEChat ] between the ASE and NAEE the other night with environmental education as the focus. Although I never quite discovered what the purposes were, just having an encounter seemed almost worthwhile...
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Crimean man shot in dispute about ESD
Rostov-on-Don, April 1st 2014 This morning's RIA news agency bulletin carries an article about a dispute in a Crimean bar over the meaning of ESD. Here's the gist of the story: An argument over ESD theory ended in a man being shot. Police...
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€zillions for the YOUNG at heart
The EU Research and Innovation programme, Horizon 2020, has funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). It comprises various research areas, one of which is YOUNG-4-2015: The young as a driver of social change. This is how the descriptor...
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Beautiful and elegant as a theory, and pragmatic and practical in application
There were two events yesterday competing for my attention; sadly, I could go to neither, but I was able to follow parts of each on Twitter. One was an Ellen MacArthur Foundation conference in Bradford on Rethinking the Future [...
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Ofsted is eloquently quiet on sustainability in FE
The 2013 Ofsted annual report on the further education and skills sector (available here) has little to say about sustainability. It’s a gloomy, and really rather shocking, read. This is from the Executive Summary: 2. … there is still too...
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They do it differently; they do it better; …
… and they’re doing it now. Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability implementation group is up and running; its membership and terms of reference are here Learning for Sustainability – the report of the One Planet Schools working group was published in...
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The blog's on enforced vacation ...
… and Bath's digital team promise it will be even better when they've finished the upgrade. I hope that applies to the content as well.
