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Southampton's Sustainability Videos
I spent an enjoyable hour on Friday afternoon last week watching a dozen or so student videos that Simon Kemp kindly alerted the SHED network to. Simon wrote ... I would like to alert you to our ‘Sustainability Film Festival’...
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Managing the Sustainable Schools Alliance
I wrote a while ago about the re-birth of the Sustainable Schools Alliance. A proposed management board for the Alliance met two weeks ago. It was a good turn out with a good mix of organisations around the table, including: Anglian...
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A train wreck of an energy policy
I have been watching the run-away train that is the government's new energy bill as it careers towards us. I've thought all along, as I have listened to rumour and leaks, that, surely, no one could be so stupid as...
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Can we please have an environmental education that takes economics seriously?
One of the problems of trying to be an environmental educator is how do you take the need for social and economic change seriously when you're addressing the environment. It seems axiomatic that this has to be done, one way...
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Leading Curriculum Change for Sustainability: Strategic Approaches to Quality Enhancement
The report of the Hefce project Leading Curriculum Change for Sustainability: Strategic Approaches to Quality Enhancement has emerged. Judging by the mail message announcing this, its writers are pleased with it. It will, of course, be a "great success" and make...
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Are England’s PISA test scores really “plummeting”?
Browsing the Guardian, I came across John Jerrim's 2011 (but suddenly very topical) report for the Institute of Education: England’s “plummeting” PISA test scores between 2000 and 2009: Is the performance of our secondary school pupils really in relative decline? Here’s the...
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LSIS's lingering death finally confirmed; Long live the FE Guild
DBIS has announced that its funding the the Learning and Skills Improvement service will come to an end in August 2013. This is the last of a series of cuts in recent years. LSIS has confirmed that it will cease...
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Learning for Sustainability in times of accelerating change: a review
I have been reading Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change, a new book edited by Arjen Wals & Peter Corcoran, and published by Wageningen Academic Publishers. Here's my review ... This is an ambitious book, and is weighty...
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Forget resilient; antifragile's the thing, ...
.... os so reports Omah Malik in this week's THE in his witty, informative (but clearly infuriated) review of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand. Malik sums up the Taleb concept of a scale...
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Nothing short of delusion?
That is the Tim Jackson view of whether technological innovation can help 9 billion people live sustainably, and well, on the planet: "There is as yet no credible, socially just, environmentally sustainable scenario for continually growing incomes for a world...
