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Turning around leadership for sustainability in higher education
Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education is a project funded by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council which involves the University of Western Sydney (Lead), the Sustainable Futures Academy (Salzburg), the Australian National University, and the University of Gloucestershire. A...
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Disabled Animal Agency – Ofscoff comments
A press release dated 10th August 2009, from the Office for Strictures and Control on Fodder and Food (Ofscoff), welcomes the government's promised new regulations on disability in the food chain (England). A spokesperson for Ofscoff, Dr Isabella McTarry-Wilson, is...
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This is just the time for sound-bites
When the saintly Tony Blair said "Although now is not the time for sound-bites, I can feel the hand of history on my shoulder ..." (or somesuch), I fear that I must have cringed and groaned, probably in equal measure....
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A citizenship education on the streets
Those parents who seemingly took their young children onto the streets to see looting in action must take a dim view of the citizenship education they're getting in schools. Perhaps they thought that some sort of balance was necessary. Meanwhile,...
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The Great, the Good – and Tim Oates
An early rise recently to get to Stoke on Trent on time to attend a conference at Keele University's Centre for Successful Schools. The focus was The Curriculum: lessons to be learned? It was an unremittingly old fashioned series of...
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New Journal Opportunities
Publishers are always on the lookout for new journal niches, ever eager to part universities and academics from their ready money. Browsing at the wonderful Art in Action festival recently, I stumbled upon a proposal for project of unfinished projects...
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Untidy Britain
It seems that Waste Watch and Keep Britain Tidy are to merge (although you'd be hard pressed to know this from looking at their web sites this morning). Speculation has been rife about the new organisation's name, with the hot...
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Where there's LIFE, there's ...
... well, enormous hope and expectation at the very least. LiFE (Learning in Future Environments) is EAUC's rebranded, refurbished and soon-to-be relaunched Universities that Count project. It is funded by the four UK Higher Education Funding Councils: the Higher Education...
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I name this ship ... The Environment Agency
Unthinkable, I know, so why did some committee or other think it a good idea to name one of First Great Western's increasingly aged low speed trains 'The Environment Agency'. I spotted this walking down one of Paddington's rejuvenated platforms...
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New Schools Programme backed by DFID and DfE
Think Global reports that the Secretary of State for International Development has announced a new schools programme around development education which is "supported by the Secretary of State for Education". It seems that this will involve working with schools in...
