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The Commission catches up – well, nearly – and a little late
Thanks to Steve Martin for pointing me to the European Commission report on the Modernisation of Higher Education: improving the quality of teaching and learning in Europe’s Higher Education Institutes. This was published in June. The report sets out "a...
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Oxfam's barriers to understanding sustainable development
The latest Oxfam Discussion Paper, A Safe and Just Space for Humanity, by Kate Raworth, opens with this: Humanity’s challenge in the 21st century is to eradicate poverty and achieve prosperity for all within the means of the planet’s limited...
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Another league table, and something of a puzzle
I cast a jaundiced eye over the Guardian's university league table the other week, and not just to see how Bath was doing – rising majestically, since you ask (but keep your Kipling open at the right page). Reading on,...
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Straight Talk on Leadership
It’s not widely known, but, when the UK's Vice Chancellors last marched on Whitehall, they did it to this chant: What do we want? More leadership development materials ... When do we want it? At the end of the next...
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The EAC nudges Mr Gove on the UN and ESD
Last month SEEd organised a letter to Michael Gove. This is a response from Joan Walley, MP, Chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) ... To the Signatories of the ‘Keep Sustainability in the National Curriculum Objectives’...
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SD Indicators – no room for Education
In 2012, Defra proposed a new set of sustainable development indicators, intended to measure national progress on key economic, social and environmental issues over time and complement the National well-being measures published by the Office for National Statistics. There was...
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Brewing, Quality and ESD
On a recent pilgrimage to Norfolk I was sidetracked by visiting a micro brewery near to Walsingham. It was an inspiring place, sustainability speaking. The barley was grown in adjacent fields and malted locally, the water came from the brewery's...
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The call to sustainability from Marrakech
As I noted in a PS to my original blog about weec7, the event culminated in the Call of Marrakech, which ENSI desribes as ... "giving express to concerns and visions for the future of Environmental Education and Education for...
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Hefce and the HEA – a post script
I wrote the other day about the funding letter from Hefce to the HEA. What's not in the letter, but on the Hefce website, is this text about a forthcoming review of the HEA: In the light of the changes since the last...
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The Guardian says Gove sees reason
Positive news, it would seem, on the national climate curriculum change [sic] front. I'm grateful to NAEE's Sarah Simmons for the alert to the Guardian on Friday which reported: Michael Gove abandons plans to drop climate change from curriculum: climate change will...
