{"id":6391,"date":"2015-07-20T06:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T06:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6391"},"modified":"2015-07-20T06:15:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T06:15:56","slug":"what-jonathon-porritt-didnt-say-atuwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/07\/20\/what-jonathon-porritt-didnt-say-atuwe\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jonathon Porritt didn't say at UWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've just watched JP's recent lecture at the University of the West of England (Bristol) UWE \u2013 you can access it via this <a href=\"http:\/\/naee.org.uk\/jonathon-porritts-hopes-for-the-next-5-years\/\">NAEE<\/a> blog post. \u00a0Whilst what he said was of interest, especially the sooth-saying element of his talk: <em>4 things to watch for in the coming years<\/em>, it was what he didn't say that drew my attention. \u00a0 Inevitably, of course, in 30 minutes he didn't say quite a lot \u2013 for example, he never once mentioned FIFA\u00a0and its future contribution to sustainability. \u00a0This would not have taken long.<\/p>\n<p>More significantly, he didn't\u00a0mention <em>education<\/em>,\u00a0and its\u00a0future contribution to sustainability. \u00a0This is less understandable, especially as he was talking in a university. \u00a0And, let it be said, not just any old university, as UWE has embraced sustainability as an organisation, and has even gone\u00a0out of its way to incorporate the outcomes of the HEA \/ QAA <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/10\/15\/its-a-far-far-better-thing-i-do\/\">guidelines<\/a> on ESD into how it operates.<\/p>\n<p>What a <em>faux pas<\/em>, you might think. \u00a0What an omission! \u00a0But Jonathon Porritt doesn't do omissions. \u00a0If he didn't single out education as something to watch, it's because he thought it wasn't worth a mention. \u00a0Quite sobering.<\/p>\n<p>PS, whatever did happen to those QAA \/ HEA guidelines that we going to transform higher education?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've just watched JP's recent lecture at the University of the West of England (Bristol) UWE \u2013 you can access it via this NAEE blog post. \u00a0Whilst what he said was of interest, especially the sooth-saying element of his talk:...<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391","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=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}