An interview with Iain Patton on our new way of LiFE - EAUC feature in University Business

29th September 2011

A new way of LiFE is helping guide universities and colleges to a green economy

October's issue of University Business is a special one as it's their Green issue with a focus on sustainability. It's fantastic to see such a strong publication acknowledge the importance of sustainability within the sector.

As a regular contributor, we thought a special feature was required with a focus on a subject close to our hearts which ultimately aims to improve social responsibility and sustainability performance: Learning in Future Environments (LiFE).

For this special feature our Chief Executive, Iain Patton, sat down with University Business to discuss the launch of LiFE and how the EAUC is using it to help universities and colleges through the current period of transition. The interview explores the journey we’ve been on in its development and how we’ve used direct feedback from the sector to
develop a tool that will really work!

Here’s a snippet but you can read the full article below:

Let’s start simple. What is LiFE?
That’s probably a good start. LiFE stands for Learning in Future Environments. It’s a brand new system that launches on 1 November 2011. We’re incredibly excited about it. Basically LiFE is being developed to help universities and colleges manage, measure, improve and promote their social responsibility and sustainability performance. We’re delighted to be working closely with our funding partners HEFCE, HEFCW, the SFC and DELNI on this initiative.

In a broader sense, however, LiFE is really about helping institutions cope with

this period of tumultuous transition that’s happening now, and has been developed with direct input from across the sector.

So it’s actually a system institutions can use?
Yes, it’s actually a system they can use! As you may know, we started the process of designing a social responsibility system with Universities that Count several years ago. That was our first attempt and while it did many good things, in some areas it fell short of what we needed it to be. We used that as an excellent opportunity to learn what really matters to universities and colleges and we’ve been applying that learning to the development of LiFE.

To view the article in full, please download the document below. To learn more about LiFE, visit www.thelifeindex.org.uk.

This cutting has been supplied to the EAUC by University Business Magazine, a publication by Wildfire Comms Ltd, Unit 2.4 Paintworks, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS4 3EN.

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