The Office for Students(OfS) has just announced a change in emphasis to its regulatory strategy for university quality assurance:it’s about levelling up and the role of universities in this policy vacuum. “Three and a half years since our public launch, this consultation on our new strategy marks a significant milestone for the Office for StudentsContinue reading “CONSULTATION ON THE OfS STRATEGY-2022-2025”
Author Archives: Steve Martin
REBOOT THE FUTURE JONATHON PORRITT ANNOUNCES, ‘HOW WILL YOU REBOOT THE FUTURE?’
CAMPAIGN TO MOBILISE SCHOOLS FOR COP-26 IN GLASGOW On Wednesday, 21st April, Reboot the Future, a UK-based NGO, launched ‘How Will You Reboot the Future?’, a multi-media project targeted at UK 14–19-year-old students to stimulate debate and action as we approach the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow laterContinue reading “REBOOT THE FUTURE JONATHON PORRITT ANNOUNCES, ‘HOW WILL YOU REBOOT THE FUTURE?’”
Regeneration – ending the climate crisis in one generation
I came across the work of environmentalist Paul Hawken during my time as Director of Learning at Forum for the Future. In his new book published on the 21 September-2021-at the start of the autumn equinox he espouses a new way of framing the solutions to our climate crisis. It’s title is an alternative twist thatContinue reading “Regeneration – ending the climate crisis in one generation”
THE PARALYSIS OF TRUTH IN PRACTICE
Epistemic vices which nullify epistemic virtues In May 2020, I LIKE TRAINS the Leeds based indie band shared a brand new single, The Truth, which was the first single from their upcoming album, KOMPROMAT. The inspiration behind KOMPROMAT, is a social as well as a conceptual representation of the current and ongoing theme ofContinue reading “THE PARALYSIS OF TRUTH IN PRACTICE”
Doing More with Less: Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production
Still Only One Earth: Lessons from 50 years of UN sustainable development policy Today the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) sent out a relatively short-for them- reflection on how far we have progressed over the past 50 years on the journey towards a sustainable future . It struck me as a prescient and harshContinue reading “Doing More with Less: Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production”
CULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY
As Raymond Williams now-famously said, ‘culture’ is one of the two or three most complicated words in English usage Embedding sustainability into the higher education curriculum has been far from straightforward. Consequently, implementation has been patchy – both in terms of disciplinary spread and in terms of the understandings of sustainability A culture for sustainabilityContinue reading “CULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY”
Transformation with a focus on Human Value
If we are to effect transformative change towards a more sustainable future, then the policies which underpin such change must embrace and place human value at the centre of the economic life of society. Yet the adversarial character of democratic politics tends to focus more on the expectations of change than on a cogent reality.Continue reading “Transformation with a focus on Human Value”
Ireland is in the news again!
But it’s not only about the ongoing border dispute over Brexit this time, important though this is. It is about the future of universities, and the impact of marketisation. Headlined- Irish president: ‘market-driven’ universities face ‘ruination’. Michael Higgins warned last week that universities ‘have suffered attrition of range and depth, loss of interdisciplinary exchange, leadingContinue reading “Ireland is in the news again!“
Sustainability needs new approaches to adult learning: a role for citizens’ assemblies.
Adult learning for citizenship needs to respond to rapid global change which is economic, political, social, cultural and ecological. The destruction of the environment, and the various initiatives and actions, by individuals, communities, organisations and movements like the Climate Change school ‘strikers’ and Extinction Rebellion, set a bold and urgent context to repurposing adult citizenship education andContinue reading “Sustainability needs new approaches to adult learning: a role for citizens’ assemblies.”
HOW ALL LIFE IS INTERCONNECTED AND WHY IT MATTERS
There is currently a burgeoning literature on our life support system-the biosphere. Moreover, it is coming at a time when we are being alerted to an eco-apocalyptic countdown but with little understanding of how and when a global tipping point will impact on our very survival. For the first time in our history, we canContinue reading “HOW ALL LIFE IS INTERCONNECTED AND WHY IT MATTERS”
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