Skills and Sustainable Development - 2016

For the sixth year in a row, 80 per cent of students have told NUS that they want their institutions to be doing more on sustainability, and 60 per cent want to learn more about it.

Each year NUS ask students about their attitudes towards learning for sustainable development. We know that students care about sustainability. We see it from the actions thousands are taking on their campuses and in their communities.

This research makes it even more clear how much students care about sustainability.

80 per cent of students want their institution to be doing more on sustainable development
60 per cent of students want to learn more about sustainability

We’ve conducted this research six years in a row now, and these results have stayed exactly the same. Despite changes such as the rise in fees, and the crash of the jobs market, the demand for action by their institutions and desire to learn about sustainability has remained constant.

For the first time this year, we’ve included students in further education (FE) in our research. We found that FE students agreed with those in HE that sustainability was important both during their time in education and beyond into employment.

Research like this is part of the reason we do the sustainability work we do. It’s important to students, so it’s important to us – and we’ll continue to embed sustainability across campuses, curriculums and communities because that’s what students want.

Read the latest student research here

Read our research with employers on sustainability here

Read the previous student research here