2020 in the HE sector has got off to an hilarious start, but not in a good way.<\/p>\n
I understand that the ludicrously mis-named, and \u00fcber useless, Office for Students<\/em> is expecting the Climate Commission for UK Higher and Further Education Leaders (formed in 2019 by EAUC, the Association of Colleges, GuildHE and Universities UK) to ensure that the sector meets the UK government's target of reducing all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.<\/p>\n Note the \"to ensure<\/em>\" here.<\/p>\n It\u00a0is beyond ridiculous to suggest that a toothless Commission can do this. \u00a0The clue is in the name. \u00a0 The OfS does have the power to do this (as it's a regulator) but an unwilling one it seems \u2013 just has it has been throughout all its existence when it comes to environment and sustainability; unwilling and indifferent.<\/p>\n Here's a suggestion for a new year resolution for the OfS: remember you're a regulator that holds HE institutions to account on behalf of the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2020 in the HE sector has got off to an hilarious start, but not in a good way. I understand that the ludicrously mis-named, and \u00fcber useless, Office for Students is expecting the Climate Commission for UK Higher and Further...<\/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-7621","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\/7621","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=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}