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ESD and wider sustainability academics
The SHED-SHARE mailbase had a message from its co-ordinator the other day. It said: Greetings SHED-ers Does anyone know if there have been any conversations with AdvanceHE is establishing an ESD Community of Practice? With push from the community they...
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The anchor of my purest thoughts
This is an extract from the Wordsworth poem: Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 ... For I have learned To look on nature, not as in...
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Are globalisation and Google on the run?
Being no fan of Google, I gave a small cheer the other week when France’s data-protection regulator announced that it had found the company's data-collection practices to be in breach of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation and fined it a modest €50m....
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More than a game of chicken
Although I don't, all who consume chicken might like [or not] to read the Economist's recent detailing of the industry. This is how it starts: "In a shed on a poultry farm just outside Colchester, in south-east England, thousands of...
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Ofsted's Education Inspection Framework
Despite what I said the other day, I've been reading Ofsted's Education Inspection Framework and a riveting read it is. You might be surprised to hear that the words environment/environmental occur in it as many as 24 times; but you'll...
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Let's protest about climate
A whole lot of folk have worked themselves up in a lather of indignation because a few thousand young people left their schools last Friday to protest about the lack of governmental action about climate change. A few of the...
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Where will your children be tomorrow?
Will they be in school? Or will they be protesting about the ecological crisis facing the world and the lack of policy focus on it? We're told that there will be a growing number of such protests where adding...
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An everyday story of coerced proletarianisation
There was an (inadvertently) entertaining article in the Guardian the other week from a woke bloke in a UK university complaining about how poverty stats are manipulated and misinterpreted. There were lots of sloping graphs to grab our attention but...
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Ofsted and (G)L/ESD/EE/CC(E)fS etc
I see that Ofsted is encouraging consultation on proposed changes to its inspection framework. I wondered whether to bother thinking about thinking about responding. I decided not to. I might have done so if I thought that Ofsted had any...
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Danes building wall to repel African immigrants
Every news bulletin I hear seems to have an item on either that Wall – the one between the USA and Mexico, or the one that no one wants to see built across Ireland. None have so far mentioned the...
