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Title: Sustainable Development


1
Sustainable Development the role of higher
education
Steve Egan
EAUC conference 31 March 2008
2
Higher Educations contribution
  • Role as educators
  • Generation and transfer of knowledge
  • Leadership of, and influence on, local, national
    and international networks
  • Business strategy and operations.

3
Leitch
  • Leitch Review of Skills 2006
  • Recognised HE as a key contributor to the
    challenge of ensuring that the UK is a world
    leader in skills by 2020.
  • Leitch Implementation Plan
  • it is imperative that everyone in this country
    develops the skills of sustainable living and
    working. That means placing sustainable
    development at the heart of skills provision,
    ensuring that it is a fundamental goal of our
    economic and social progress.

4
Challenges
  • What are skills for sustainability?
  • Link to employability?
  • What are the ways in which partners can work
    together?
  • Another agenda in an already overcrowded
    curriculum? How can the existing curriculum be
    used to support SD e.g. work placement?
  • What can we as a sector do to effectively harness
    and increase drivers?

5
Drivers
  • Students
  • Professional bodies
  • Targets and legislation
  • Employers
  • Sector Skills Councils
  • United Nations
  • Funding Councils

6
Employer engagement
  • Higher Education Innovation Fund
  • Carbon Connections - UEA
  • UrbanBuzz Building Sustainable Communities UCL
    and UEL
  • Lifelong Learning Networks
  • CETLs
  • Pilot projects

7
What are employers looking for?
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Team working
  • Problem solving
  • Communicator
  • Flexibility
  • Commitment
  • Networking
  • Proactivity
  • Motivation
  • Technical skills
  • Independent working
  • Planning

www.prospects.ac.uk
8
Business Barometer
Chart source Carbon Trust Business barometer Oct
07
9
Sector Skills Councils
Sustainability Skills Matrix for the built
environment
  • Charts the key functional players
  • Identifies high level competences
  • Map existing competences and identify skills gaps
  • Measure industry progress
  • Assist future joint working

10
United Nations
  • Decade for ESD (2005-14)
  • to integrate the principles, values, and
    practices of sustainable development into all
    aspects of education and learning.
  • Regional Centres of Expertise
  • Opportunities for HEIs to connect locally
  • East Midlands first RCE in the UK

11
HEFCEs role
  • Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
    (CETL)
  • C-SCAIPE - Kingston University
  • Centre for Sustainable Futures - University of
    Plymouth
  • Higher Education Academy
  • Facilitate collaborative working
  • Senior management commitment

12
HEFCEs role
  • Revolving green fund
  • Strategic review
  • Great deal has been done diversity of
    approaches
  • Momentum for change needs to continue and
    increase
  • 2008 sustainable development action plan
  • Consultation summer 2008

13
Further information
http//www.hefce.ac.uk/lgm/sustain/
Steve Egan s.egan_at_hefce.ac.uk 0117 9317408
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