{"id":6132,"date":"2014-10-20T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T07:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2014-10-20T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T07:31:13","slug":"hefces-sustainable-development-framework-an-update-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/10\/20\/hefces-sustainable-development-framework-an-update-of-sorts\/","title":{"rendered":"HEFCE's Sustainable Development Framework \u2013 an update of sorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might be wondering what has happened to HEFCE's new Sustainable Development Framework\u00a0\u2013 after all, the national consultation was many\u00a0months ago. \u00a0Well, there is the inevitable passage through the Council's committees \u2013 not to mention their having to get a draft that was both reasonably meaningful and which could be squeezed\u00a0past the new CEO's rather\u00a0reductionist\u00a0view of sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>I am told, however, by those who know, that the publication of the new Framework is now being delayed until after the UNECSO's ESD\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/unesco-world-conference-on-esd-2014\/\">Nagoya conference<\/a>\u00a0[10-12 November], as the\u00a0End-of-Decade report is said to\u00a0make\u00a0enthusiastic\u00a0noises about HEFCE, and make it\u00a0look good \u2013 far\u00a0better, probably, than it currently deserves; understandably, the Council wants\u00a0to have the benefit\u00a0of all of that.<\/p>\n<p>And to think that HEFCE and its leadership of the sector was once world-leading. \u00a0Now, it's world-following in more senses than one. \u00a0Such a pity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might be wondering what has happened to HEFCE's new Sustainable Development Framework\u00a0\u2013 after all, the national consultation was many\u00a0months ago. \u00a0Well, there is the inevitable passage through the Council's committees \u2013 not to mention their having to get a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}