ESD training: Apply for ‘Green Academy: Curricula for Tomorrow’

18th November 2010

Higher Education (HE) in the UK is undergoing a period of significant change, unprecedented for a generation.
 

In the coming years, public funding is to be cut drastically, students may become increasingly consumer-focused, and the market is set to drive quality of provision.

Within this challenging context, there is a growing need for the HE sector to rise to the sustainability challenge in more strategic and holistic ways and to consider how best to embed sustainable development into the overall student experience.

Learning, teaching and curricula are core to this with the intention of ensuring future graduates are globally aware and responsible citizens in the 21st century.

Employers are demanding sustainably-literate graduates and the UK Government’s vision for a new “green economy” presents a range of opportunities and demands from the workforce. Students, too, have increasing expectations around future-proof skills.

To that end, the Higher Education Academy’s Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Project is launching an exciting new change programme, in association with the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) and the National Union of Students (NUS), to help institutions achieve these goals.

Although founded on a similar concept to our flagship change programme, Change Academy, its focus is developmental –specifically on ESD – and is being run as a pilot for this academic year.

We invite applications for participation in Green Academy: Curricula for Tomorrow.

Contact sustainability@heacademy.ac.uk  
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