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Hefce and sustainability
When I wrote about the NUS the other day, I mentioned Hefce's catalyst fund as this was the source of the students' windfall. The fund has two major goals, both now focused on delivering the public and collective student interests...
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I bet Thatcher's got a hand in this ...
In 2006, BBC Radio 2 broadcast a series of radio ballads that were based on the original and iconic late 1950s stories and songs about industrial life that involved Ewan McColl, Peggy Seager, and many others. The 2006 versions reflected the...
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Climate Change Education? Well, no ...
There has been much fuss recently about the 'removal' of climate change from the English national curriculum, and the evils that will result. I have already touched on this in respect of geography teaching, and feel likely [Add heavy heart...
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NUS is quids in
Hefce has just pressed £5m into the NUS palm c/o its Catalyst Fund. Here are the outline details from the funding council ... The funding will help students to engage with their universities and colleges on sustainable development, and to...
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UNECE spurs economic growth across the continent
I'm pleased to report that those selfless UNECE folk have been travelling round Europe again, staying in nice hotels, in order to instruct the rest of us in how to live sustainably. But we should not carp! Indeed, our collective...
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A very short introduction to ... education
A spokesperson for the Department of Education, Dr Ratko O'Malley, confirmed today that the DfE is to buy 800,000 copies of Gary Thomas's new OUP publication, Education: A Very Short Introduction, which was published last week. These will be distributed...
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Free the QAA 5,000
I sat through a briefing by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) yesterday on its proposed new resource on ESD. Quite why it is doing this, is still beyond me, as I have already noted. I didn't take part in the discussion...
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ESD ≠ SD, unless ...
It ought to be obvious, even to those not privy to its arcane mysteries, that the concept of sustainable development and the process that is education for sustainable development cannot be the same thing. But it isn't, it seems, even to...
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A Right Royal Charter
I don't know! You leave the country for a few days to bask in UNESCO's world heritage beneficence, and when you return you find Parliament proposing to overthrow hundreds of years of hard-won press freedoms. Not only that, but blogs...
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Still muddling, not yet through
This is the title of a 1979 paper by Yale's CE Lindblom in Public Administration Review. An abridged version is here, c/o Google. It is an argument for disjointed instrumentalism as the preferred policy option. I thought it a great...
