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jennyCHES (Committee of Heads of Environmental Sciences) is the collective voice of environmental sciences and related programmes in higher and further education.

It is an active networking organisation and serves to enhance quality of outcomes in environmental education. It aims to facilitate cooperation and collaboration between relevant bodies within the UK and worldwide. CHES offers advice to government by invitation (through consultation exercises) and proactively in its own right.

CHES provides a lobbying service for the Higher Education environmental sciences community. It moves the national debate and policy process forward in appropriate areas by canvassing the views of members, and both responding to, and initiating dialogue with government, funding agencies and allied professional bodies.

CHES works closely with the Institution of Environmental Sciences and also has links with sister organisations in America, Canada and Europe. It is a member of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES SC) Advisory Group.

Currently CHES comprises 32 departments nationwide. New members are welcome: please see our membership pages for details.urban


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NEWS & EVENTS


17th October 2008: CHES Executive Committee meeting
The next CHES Executive Committee meeting will take place on 17th October 2008. Please contact CHES if you would like further information about this meeting. To join the Executive Committee your School or Department must be a member of CHES.

CHES Annual Conference 23rd June 2008
The aim of this conference was to summarise Phase 1 and embark on Phase 2 of Mapping the Environmental Landscape. The start of Phase 2 involved a group of environmental scientists interrogating the report in order to examine trends and issues and to make recommendations for the evolution and future direction of the discipline. See News and Events for further details.


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