{"id":6207,"date":"2015-01-22T10:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T10:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2015-01-22T10:07:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T10:07:48","slug":"green-capital-student-capital-unleashing-the-power-of-bristol-students-to-benefit-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/22\/green-capital-student-capital-unleashing-the-power-of-bristol-students-to-benefit-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Capital \u2013 Student Capital: unleashing the power of Bristol Students to benefit the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol is the 2015\u00a0European Green Capital, and its\u00a0universities have come together with a promise to make \"positive and sustainable environmental changes\" during 2015. \u00a0This\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/news\/2014\/december\/green-capital-hefce-funding.html\">project<\/a> has been made possible by generous tax-payer funding of \u00a3249,734 c\/o\u00a0the\u00a0Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the Bristol project is on student participation, and the universities and student unions are aiming to provide 100,000 hours of student activity involving 3,000 students. \u00a0I understand that HEFCE insisted that outcomes\u00a0from the green capital project had to \"benefit HE nationally\". \u00a0This\u00a0will be quite a challenge, unless <em>benefit<\/em> is interpreted loosely. \u00a0You have to suspect it will be, given the funding council's habit of declaring all its green \/ sustainability projects a success without bothering too much with evaluation data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol is the 2015\u00a0European Green Capital, and its\u00a0universities have come together with a promise to make \"positive and sustainable environmental changes\" during 2015. \u00a0This\u00a0project has been made possible by generous tax-payer funding of \u00a3249,734 c\/o\u00a0the\u00a0Higher Education Funding Council for England...<\/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-6207","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\/6207","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=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}