Build smart for a bright future
Higher education is in a unique position to realise the dividends of sustainable buildings, says Peter James. The rewards are not only fiscal and functional - the very best work is celebrated in...
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Campus power
Harvard is cleaning up its act, and Leith Sharp has high hopes it will set a global example The Harvard Green Campus Initiative began in 2000 with a one-year grant. Over the past five years it has...
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Catalytic converters
Industry is greedy for graduates of sustainable development courses to help ensure that it enjoys long-term commercial returns. Matt Baker reports Sustainable development graduates are arguably among...
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Check in with CaSPr when your PC gives up the ghost
Institutions north of the border are working to embed sustainability on campus, says Olga Wojtas Universities may face prosecution if they dump computer monitors in a skip. But David Somervell,...
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Countdown to global meltdown
The Government needs to invest political energy in supporting a creative climate for research into the environment before it is too late, says Sara Parkin In January, Chancellor Gordon Brown asked...
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Introduction
We are a year into the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-14). What seemed a remote and worthy sentiment 12 months ago has become a pressing issue for governments,...
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Millions of helping hands
Staff and students have the chance to play a big part in driving the national agenda. Let's make sure we don't pass it up, says Steve Egan The UK's universities and colleges educate 2 million...
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Ready to go the distance?
Students are keen to embrace a sustainable future, says Brian Chalkley, but transforming learning cultures requires a marathon effort, not a mad dash Education for sustainable development (ESD) is an...
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Wind of change
For the past 20 years, Oxford Brookes has not shied away from the fiendish task of putting green theory into practice. Graham Upton explains Oxford Brookes University has been a major investor in...
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Gordon and the revenge of the Golden Triangle
The RAE’s revolutionary support for quality over bloodline is under fire from the elitists, says James Mills So the revolution is dead, and the counterrevolution is upon us. The research assessment...
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‘Accidents’ and wild boars in the woods
Handel And The Castrati Handel House Museum, London, until October 1. "There is a bit of testicle," said Diderot, "at the bottom of our most sublime sentiments and most refined tenderness." Or, in...
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Add risk to the plot for happy endings
Book festivals may be two a penny, but organisers should not be complacent if they want them to thrive, argues Andrew Motion So far as I’m aware, there’s no such thing as a "history of public...
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Scales fall short of grand symphonies in maths
Pique children’s interest in maths with elegant epics, enigmatic mysteries and cold hard cash, says Marcus du Sautoy World pi Day was marked at 1:59 on March 14 — 3.14159 being the beginning of the...
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Local deals on cards as v-cs round on Ucea
Vice-chancellors this week predicted the collapse of national pay bargaining as several admitted that they were ready to cut local deals with lecturers' unions in a bid to end the dispute. A number...
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Students waved through final lap
Keele University has privately admitted that scores of students could graduate this summer with degree classifications that they do not deserve under plans to beat the assessment boycott, writes Phil...