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Where have all the academics gone?
Here's a cheery video from Cambridge looking at the impact of one of their green initiatives. But where are the academics? If you follow the on-screen credits, and freeze the last screen, you see who's involved – and not so...
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More stone than golden age
I commented earlier in the year on the new Stonehenge – well, the new super-English-Heritage-at-its-very-best visitor centre, which I think we should be calling the Neocentre. As it nears completion, I'm told by the ever-reliable and insightful, World Heritage Trails...
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The UK Department for Environmental Education
Thanks to an eagle-eyed colleague in China (who spends too much time web-surfing), I got to hear of this last week. It seems to exist only on Facebook as far as I can see. It says: The UK Department for...
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The Journal of Cleaner Production rises without trace
Slightly fizzy wine flowed in Elsevier's offices last week celebrating the rise in the impact factor of the Journal of Cleaner Production from 2.727 in 2011 to 3.398 in 2012. Or so I infer from the excited report that the...
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But where's the theory?
I had a day in the Holy of Holies last week – the Royal Institution. An exhausting whole day, sitting, at least in a ghostly sense, alongside the likes of Davy, Faraday, Dewar, Bragg, Kelvin, Jeans, Hoyle, Rutherford, ......
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7th World Environmental Education Congress – a review
One of the advantages of SEEd membership is that you get to know what CEO Ann Finlayson's been getting up to. Last week she was at the 7th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC 7). The pic shows UNEP Executive Director...
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Craig Mahoney gets a letter
The letter in question is to the HEA from Hefce CEO, Sir Alan Langlands, and concerns funding arrangements for the HEA for 2013 / 14. It's 11 pages long. You can read it here. Sustainability / ESD / sustainable development get...
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Dontdareciteit – a new service for frustrated academics
To Academics Everywhere .... Are you tired of having your work cited by those who’ve clearly not read it? Or fed up with citations where the author obviously doesn't understand your paper? Are you plagued by authors who change what...
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University makes a sustainable spalsh in the Med
Thanks to eagle-eyed friends in the Antipodes for alerting me to the, clearly-must-read, Cotswold News. The News reports this week on the huge impact that UniGlos is making in the al-Maghrib and Mediterranean. Clearly, bonuses all round, especially if all this can...
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Webchat away
Following the publication of the 2013 Green League last week, the Guardian Higher Education Network hosted a 2 hour live webchat last Friday. This is how the Guardian introduced it: "Universities are the true thought leaders of society and if...
