30 October 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review at the Royal Society by Prime Minister Tony Blair, Chancellor Gordon Brown and the Secretary of State for the Environment David Miliband, together with Nicholas Stern. A key conclusion from the review was that the costContinue reading “The Economics of Climate Change”
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HUMAN CAPITAL
The Tragedy of the Education Commons by Guy Standing This is a hugely important book for all those who care about our education system- as I have done for the past 40 years. It will enlighten you to the marketisation and commodification of education at all levels- and it will enlighten you-and anger you aboutContinue reading “HUMAN CAPITAL”
Experienced teachers are quitting or reducing their hours – they’re struggling to cope
by Moira Hulme, Professor of Education, University of the West of Scotland Teacher shortages are affecting school systems in countries across the world. Governments have responded with initiatives to attract graduates into teaching. While much attention has focused on increasing supply, far less attention has been paid to why experienced teachers decide to leave, despiteContinue reading “Experienced teachers are quitting or reducing their hours – they’re struggling to cope”
Exploring University Sustainability Performance through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Framework
Presentation to the new University Strategy Team for Sustainability at Nottingham University 21 July 2026 Introduction I have spent almost 40 years promoting and advocating the urgency of this agenda at international conferences and here in the UK and working at the interface of academia , national policy and corporate business. I also pioneered aContinue reading “Exploring University Sustainability Performance through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Framework”
FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: ON THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN WORKING TOWARDS MORE PEACEFUL, JUST AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
Posted on 01/07/2026 On July 1 a new open access book was be launched “Learning for a Just, Peaceful and Sustainable World” edited by Douglas Bourn and Alexis Stones. The book showcases current debates in the field of global education and learning and the importance of the Declaration on Global Education to 2050. It features chapters fromContinue reading “FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: ON THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN WORKING TOWARDS MORE PEACEFUL, JUST AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES”
Learning to speak and swim through our emotions
By Anupriya Dasgupta For an organism to survive and grow, especially in an ecological crisis, it is imperative to understand its environment as well as it can. Our social environment is one such physical place. In its deeper parts, we communicate through something fluid, where our sophisticated intellectual apparatus turns to the superiority of theContinue reading “Learning to speak and swim through our emotions”
To Improve Wellbeing We Must Abandon Failed Economic Ideas
Do you recall this lot? Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak ,and Keir Starmer. You might be able to add Andy Burnham to that list very soon, and nothing about what I say here will change. They all made big claims for themselves.Continue reading “To Improve Wellbeing We Must Abandon Failed Economic Ideas”
Revisiting the Challenges Facing Canadian Higher Education: The Limits of Crisis-Thinking
By Sharon Stein UBC Are our individual and institutional responses appropriately calibrated to the scale and complexity of the moment we are actually in? After all, we cannot “solve” planetary and geopolitical challenges at the level of curriculum, technology, or individual resilience. We cannot, and arguably should not, seek to extend an extractive system indefinitely.Continue reading “Revisiting the Challenges Facing Canadian Higher Education: The Limits of Crisis-Thinking”
Community Resilience
Battered by the storm, Cornwall was emblematic of our institutional systemic failure to confront a rapidly changing reality. In one of the richest countries in the world, entire communities lost power for weeks, and running water for days. Had the British government addressed climate change, and made contingency plans for these mega-storms, which will onlyContinue reading “Community Resilience”
Recalibration Climate Risk
This wide ranging and impressive report addresses two distinct but interconnected dimensions of climate impacts, each relevant to different decision-makers: (1) economic impacts affecting financial asset values and portfolio performance over investment horizons, and (2) broader social and human welfare impacts, including mortality, health burdens, inequality, ecosystem degradation, and quality of life. The first isContinue reading “Recalibration Climate Risk”
