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Mellalieu persistently and interminably asks the question
My friend Peter Mellalieu is the Professor of Innovation at Unitec. Fortunately for us, he does this with a strong leaning towards sustainability. We caught up at the Tertiary Education Summit where he was delivering a paper “Shifting frontiers, new priorities, creating pathways: Elevating the case for tertiary education for sustainable development in New Zealand”. Here’s […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
My learnings for innovative education
May 4, 2009
Last week I spoke at the Tertiary Education Summit. I was on a panel to discuss “Developing world leading research and innovation activities”. The panel was asked to explore what are characteristics of successful institutions? I’ve been on panels like this before and listened to lots more. The outcome is always the same: […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Bill McKibben’s 350ppm at 46 South
May 1, 2009
We had Bill McKibben visiting work yesterday. He gave a good talk and stayed for lunch. Bill has been in Wanaka and started his talk with a compelling story of an experience in Tibet, of glaciers melting and significantly changing landscape in an area that provides the water supply for a huge proportion of […]
Tolley score: Economic blinkers 17, anything else Nil.
April 30, 2009
I knew the government was focussed on the economy but I’ve just been blown away by the lack of vision, short-sightedness and one-track mindedness shown by Education Minister Anne Tolley. She just gave a very bland speech on “Tertiary Education Policy in 2009” at the Tertiary Education Summit. She says tertiary education is critical […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, government
From the margins to the centre
April 28, 2009
At the UN DESD conference I was at a workshop on integrating Education for Sustainability into curriculum plans. The workshop had the theme of “from the margins to the centre” and was by far the most productive session I attended. In one section, Robert Schreiber of the Hamburg Ministry of Education presented the German model of […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, sustainable practitioner
Computing for Sustainability 
May 4, 2009
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