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ABOUT CHES

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CHES mission statement
The Work of CHES: Promoting Environmental Science in the UK
Links with other organisations
Membership
UK Provision of Environmental Science programmes
CHES Constitution
CHES Executive Committee

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CHES mission statement

Founded in 1991, CHES is the collective voice of the UK Environmental Sciences academic community. It is an active networking organisation for all those involved in Environmental Sciences programmes within UK higher and further education. It serves to enhance quality of outcomes in environmental education and 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.

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treemeasure The Work of CHES: Promoting Environmental Science in the UK

CHES provides a lobbying service for the Higher Education Environmental Science 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 led the creation of the Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Environmental Studies (ES3) Benchmark Statement (pdf 118KB) and was actively involved in the last Research Assessment Exercise. CHES also accredits programmes of study in UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in collaboration with the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES).

For a full list of membership services, please go to the Membership page.

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Links with other organisations

CHES works independently as an organisation but has close links with the following organisations:

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Membership

Membership includes 29 HEIs and 38 departments, over 1250 Environmental undergraduate degree programmes which include Environmental Science as a single subject and programmes with Environmental Sciences components.

See
http://www.ucas.com/getting/index.html

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UK Provision of Environmental Science programmesin river

There are 111 different providers of Environmental degrees in the UK, 94 of whom offer Environmental Science as a single degree.

Undergraduate recruitment has fallen over the last 7 years but is now stable, postgraduate (taught) recruitment has risen and continues to rise. The number of providers and the diversity of ES programme provision has declined at undergraduate level. Student recruitment is the bedrock of a school / department budget and the decline in applications has had a significant impact on ES departments/schools in UK HEIs.

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CHES Constitution

Download the CHES Constitution
here (Microsoft Word 34KB)

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CHES Executive Committee

The business of CHES is managed by an Executive Committee. New members are elected each year at the AGM and serve a three year term.

The next Executive Committee meeting is on 29th October. For full details please contact CHES.

Name Position
Dr Peter Shaw (University of Southampton) Chair
Prof. Phil Wheater (Manchester Metropolitan University) Vice Chair
Mrs Jennifer Blumhof (Senior Advisor for Environmental Science, GEES) Honorary Secretary
Dr Roger Smith (University of Brighton) Honorary Treasurer
Dr Diane Purchase (Middlesex University)  
Dr John Rieuwerts (Plymouth University)  
Dr Max Hope (University of Ulster)
 
Prof. James Longhurst (University of West England)  
Prof. Robert Duck (University of Dundee)  
Dr Sarah-Jane Davies(Open University)  
Ms Ros Howell (Manchester Metropolitan University)  

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