{"id":6188,"date":"2014-12-19T08:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T08:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6188"},"modified":"2014-12-19T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T08:18:38","slug":"the-widening-gulf-between-hefce-and-institutional-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/12\/19\/the-widening-gulf-between-hefce-and-institutional-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"The widening gulf between HEFCE and institutional activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, HEFCE has published its policy framework on sustainable development: \"<em><strong>Sustainable development in higher education: HEFCE\u2019s role to date and a framework for its future actions<\/strong><\/em>\". \u00a0You can access it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hefce.ac.uk\/media\/hefce\/content\/pubs\/2014\/201430\/HEFCE2014_30.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to read it \u2013 I fear it is a damp squib \u2013 you might\u00a0do so in the context of another\u00a0document: \"<em><strong>Sustainable development in higher education: Consultation outcomes<\/strong><\/em>\". \u00a0This (it's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hefce.ac.uk\/media\/hefce\/content\/pubs\/2014\/201430\/HEFCE2014_30a.pdf\">here<\/a>) analyses\u00a0the comments from academics, institutions and others on the draft framework which HEFCE put forward last Spring. \u00a0It is, of course, HEFCE's analysis, and the actual responses are not included. \u00a0Nonetheless, there is enough here to illustrate the gulf between institutions and the Council. \u00a0This, for my money, continues to\u00a0widen, as HEFCE draws back from the challenges and leadership it used to provide to the sector. \u00a0Pretending, on the insistence of its\u00a0CEO, that sustainability is just about the environment is no way to face the future.<\/p>\n<p>Such a shame when\u00a0it was once seen as world-leading ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, HEFCE has published its policy framework on sustainable development: \"Sustainable development in higher education: HEFCE\u2019s role to date and a framework for its future actions\". \u00a0You can access it here. If you decide to read it \u2013...<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188","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=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}