We seem to be in the process of creating an education system that strives to reduce all risks whilst making ever-greater demands. The new system tells our students they must work harder, be more productive, and aim ever higher, but is not prepared to allow them simple freedoms or opportunities to make choices and toContinue reading “Biesta: The Beautiful Risk of Education”
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Back to fossil fuels-with AI?
An edited opinion piece by John ElkingtonAccording to the International Energy Agency (IEA), AI-related energy demand is set to almost double between 2022 and 2026. Bad enough, but Generation is more pessimistic still. “There are … forecasts that are much more drastic,” it concludes. “It is easy to imagine a world in which ever moreContinue reading “Back to fossil fuels-with AI?”
Interdisciplinarity makes us greater than the sum of our parts
The real world is complicated. Let’s give our students the tools to take it on with interdisciplinary education Graduates are increasingly entering a work landscape that demands agility, flexibility and a diverse skill set, and as a result, the value of interdisciplinary education is on the rise. Universities are seeking out ways to expand students’Continue reading “Interdisciplinarity makes us greater than the sum of our parts”
WHAT IS TRUE NET ZERO?
From the Guardian 19/11/2024 Under the “true” net zero definition, the natural world’s vast carbon-absorbing capabilities must only be put to work to remove historical emissions so that the planet can slowly cool over time, the net zero researchers say – not to cancel out future fossil fuel pollution.“It is a common assumption that removingContinue reading “WHAT IS TRUE NET ZERO?”
NET ZERO MEANINGLESS WITHOUT NATURE’s SUPPORT
There can be no net zero without nature. Each year, the planet’s oceans, forests, soils and other natural carbon sinks absorb about half of all human emissions. They feature in dozens of national plans to limit global heating to below 2C. This week, however, the scientific architects of net zero have a warning: you haveContinue reading “NET ZERO MEANINGLESS WITHOUT NATURE’s SUPPORT”
THE URGENT NEED FOR AN ACADEMIC REVOLUTION IN OUR UNIVERSITIES
By NICHOLAS MAXWELL- PHILOSOPHER We might put the matter like this. Humanity faces two fundamental problems of learning: learning about the universe and us and other forms of life as a part of the universe; and learning how to create a genuinely good, civilized, wise world. We have solved the first problem of learning. WeContinue reading “THE URGENT NEED FOR AN ACADEMIC REVOLUTION IN OUR UNIVERSITIES”
TRANSFORMATIVE SKILLS GUIDE
I have written recently that we need a transformative system -wide change process across our education and learning programmes and institutions to tackle the wicked global issues we face. This recently published Skills Guide puts some astonishingly accessible and credible ways to achieve this transformation. It deals with inner skills such as “thinking ,relating, collaboratingContinue reading “TRANSFORMATIVE SKILLS GUIDE”
TRANSFORMING OUR UNIVERSITIES TO MEET THE ISSUES OF THE 21 CENTURY?
How can we overcome our blindness to what is now right before our eyes: heat, storms, fires, floods, desecrated lands, extinctions, and social injustices and what these portend for their lives. Young people are now recognising that there needs to be more urgency and social focus in our educational systems and crucially we need toContinue reading “TRANSFORMING OUR UNIVERSITIES TO MEET THE ISSUES OF THE 21 CENTURY?”
WHY ARE SOLAR PANELS CHEAPER IN GERMANY
BY David Toke Germany is issuing much larger volumes of auctioned contracts for large-scale solar pv and renewable energy this year compared to the UK, but what is especially notable is the ever-plunging prices for solar pv. These continue to fall well below the prices at which the Government is awarding contracts to solar farmsContinue reading “WHY ARE SOLAR PANELS CHEAPER IN GERMANY”
The Big Thing Making Hurricane Helene Dangerous Helene’s winds stretch close to 500 miles across. That’s half the width of the entire Gulf of Mexico.
COLLEEN HAGERTY • SEPTEMBER 27, 2024 The Big Thing Making Hurricane Helene Dangerous Helene’s winds stretch close to 500 miles across. That’s half the width of the entire Gulf of Mexico. COLLEEN HAGERTY • SEPTEMBER 27, 2024 When Hurricane Helene began to take shape in the Gulf of Mexico, there was one factor thatContinue reading “The Big Thing Making Hurricane Helene Dangerous Helene’s winds stretch close to 500 miles across. That’s half the width of the entire Gulf of Mexico.”
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