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Where now for the environment movement?
Tom Crompton asks this question in a new essay from the Common Cause Foundation. You can read it here. It sets out five key opportunities for creating a step-change in the environmental movement: ways in which it could work more effectively...
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The wrong sort of wind
It's Monday afternoon and a more than gentle north-easterly breeze is rustling the leaves on the trees. Ideal wind energy generating conditions, you might think. But no. The proportion of the UK's electricity coming from wind at this minute is...
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Will Merkel be Trumped?
Could it be that the USA will do better than Germany when it comes to meeting obligations arising from the Paris Agreement, despite the US's repudiation of the deal and all that Germanic enthusiasm between the Elbe and Rhine? I...
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Friends of the Earth, the NUS and dog kicking
I see that NUS is working with Friends of the Earth [FoE] on a behaviour change project to "incentivise vegetarian meal choices by students". This will provide a veggie loyalty card which offers students a free meal once they’ve purchased 6 plant-based...
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Collaborations for change
EAUC, aka Future Imperfect, has a conference coming up on 'Collaborations for change – global goals for tomorrow's education, today'. The conference theme, we're told, "recognises the critical role academics, researchers, students, sustainability leaders and support staff in universities and colleges...
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Lack of Progress 8
The government's key measure of school worth, Progress 8, is under fire from headteachers who say that it discriminates against secondary schools in traditional English working-class areas where there is usually both economic deprivation and a low proportion of pupils speaking English...
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Embedding sustainability into learning in Bath
I see that the University of Bath is having what looks like a root 'n' branch review of curriculum. It says: "As part of our Education Strategy 2016-2021 we committed to transform our curricula and approaches to assessment, particularly where this...
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A nice day out in Cheltenham
Quartered safely in Wiltshire as I am, heading north into the Cotswolds is always like a step back in time. It's not just that medievalism always seems on the point of breaking out with the black death lurking under every...
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Kant cant
I wrote the other day about whether the failings of someone's personal life (or their rebarbative views) should act as some sort of prohibition on the study or use of their work. I cited Einstein and Kant, but there are...
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Is global learning secure with the British Council
I hear from those who attended an Inclusive Global Learning conference on 11th May, that DfID has handed responsibility for the UK's global learning programme [GLP] to the British Council. Details are scarce, and there seems to be nothing on-line. This...
