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Keep Scotland beautiful – but let's hear more about it
Keep Scotland Beautiful sports a number of blogs which were established back in September 2011 in an obvious fit of enthusiasm for new-ish media. One of these is that rare species, the environmental education blog. This is written by...
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iTunes for ESD
It's wonderful what you can find on iTunes these days, but to come across a whole lot of stuff on ESD some may think rather unexpected. Not so, however, just click here to find 81 (at today's count) outputs from Education...
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Sustainability megaforces – but not quite the usual suspects
KPMG have published a report on the sustainability megaforces will “impact each and every business over the next 20 years" – and the rest of us, no doubt. Ten are cited: Climate Change Energy & fuel Material resource scarcity Water...
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Keele watch
The University of Keele has appointed Jonathon Porritt as its new Chancellor – brave, or what? I ask this as JP remains an activist to his core as completely befits someone who a founder of Forum for the Future, and...
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The idea of the graduate attribute
I am recently returned from an HEA policy think tank on Graduate attributes and the green economy. This is the two-page stimulus paper I drafted for the event: The idea of the graduate attribute This is appealing, seductive almost, and...
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Watts up with Chris Huhne?
In the spirit of balance and fair-mindedness, I have been struggling for a week or so to find anyone with a good word to say about the lately departed Chris Huhne, but the web is full of direct and/or oblique...
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To comment, would be to condone
I'm grateful to Alan Reid for the following: A team from the University of Minnesota is traveling across all seven continents to understand how education and sustainability coincide. Aaron Doering, a learning technologies associate professor, and his co-explorer Charlie Miller,...
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Plagiarism – the 10% solution
There's ... plagiarism when you copy chunks of somebody else's already-published text and 'forget' to cite it accurately (or at all) plagiarism of a more subtle sort when you use part of something you've already published yourself elsewhere without making...
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Capturing key developments – a response to UNESCO
As I noted the other day, a request came from UNESCO to capture key developments and responses to ESD ahead of a meeting in Bonn later this month to discuss the "adoption of the UN Decade" and "vision building for...
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UNESCO takes stock – though not through research
This arrived the other day, care of the SHED SHARE mail server: Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate your advice and input regarding a brief ESD sheet I have been asked to complete. UNESCO is hosting meeting in Bonn later this month...
