Higher & Further Ed Resources

Sustaining the Impact: Exploring the Outcomes of Professional Recognition of Scottish Teachers for Sustainable Development Education, prepared by Dr Hamish Ross (Edinburgh University), GTC Scotland and WWF.

If you have had problems going back to the UNESCO survey on Survey Monkey, please see the survey questions here and send your responses to Sarah Simmons by email: sasimmons88@gmail.com by 5:15PM on Wednesday 25th January.  If you are unable to send your response to us by this time, don't worry, we are still very keen to hear your views and your responses will feed into SEEd's Policy Forum

This survey will saty open until Feb 29th 2012 for UK collation purposes

In 2009-10, the UK Teacher Education (TE) Network for Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC) developed and implemented an email survey to explore how teacher educators approach ESDGC in their course provision. The survey aimed to establish the pattern of Teacher Education provision for sustainable development/global citizenship across the UK in primary and secondary so as to work with colleagues to support and develop provision in a more consistent form.

This paper makes recommendations for policy makers and describes the core competences for educators in ESD.

Learning for the future: Competences in Education for Sustainable Development

SORTED is an online resource and toolkit provided by EAUC (Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges) for the learning and skills sector. The site provides a wide range of useful information and links, as well advice for use at the varying stages of your sustainability education journey, either as an individual, or as an institution. This includes pages on case studies and guidance on continuing professional development. This is an invaluable resource for staff and students alike.

This Expert Review, authored by Daniella Tilbury, commissioned by UNESCO is part of their phased Monitoring and Evaluation of the Decade. It endeavors to identify which commonly accepted learning processes are aligned with ESD and should be promoted through ESD-related programmes and activities. It also seeks to examine which learning opportunities contribute to sustainable development.

The second University College Union national environment conference 'Sustainable Development - Making our Voice Heard' held on November 18th, 2010 was a big success. Over 50 participants met to review the work of the union during 2010 and develop an action plan for 2011. The day was structured around the 3 themes pioneered by the UCU, in the last 2 years, of campus, curriculum and community.

This skills needs review, published by the merged Environmental Research Funders Forum and Living With Environmental Change in 2010, provides a clearer picture of current and future training needs in the environment sector than has existed previously, in identifying 15 critical skills gaps including interdisciplinarity, sustainability science and planning, as well as a range of skills in resource provision and environmental quality assessment. 

This research report builds on desk based research into students surveys and then shows the result of a 5800 first year student survey. It was researched and written by the NUS Services and partners and includes some stunning statistics across the whole of the UK.

This report is an update from the 2008 report and also reflects on progress since 2008 as well as filling in some gaps.