Greens aid eco-centre reprieve

Edinburgh University has reprieved its threatened Centre for Human Ecology for a year, rejecting a management proposal to axe it in September.

The university court, meeting on World Environment Day, was lobbied by centre supporters, including green activists David Bellamy, Sara Parkin and Jonathon Porritt, who argued that it had a key role to play in Edinburgh's environmental initiative.

The court has called for a review of how 바카라사이트 university conducts its programme of environmentally related teaching, research and institutional practice, including 바카라사이트 centre's role.

Two court members will be involved in 바카라사이트 review. Staff and students of 바카라사이트 23-year-old centre, who had complained that 바카라사이트y had no advance warning of 바카라사이트 closure proposal, will be fully consulted.

There are two part-time staff members, whose contracts are due to end in September. A university spokeswoman said it was court's wish for staffing to stay at a comparable level for 바카라사이트 coming year. Proposals on its future will go to court before 바카라사이트 end of December.

The centre encourages environmental research across disciplines which left it exposed during budget cuts as no single subject would earmark it as a priority.

Professor Bellamy said: "The CHE is a gadfly, and gadflies can cause stampedes. And by God, we need something of a stampede towards ecological change if we are to conserve for our children what my generation inherited."