As universities have begun to adopt sustainability commitments and report their progress, embedding these into the curriculum has been the hardest nut to crack.
Education is not immune to the potential for ‘greenwash’. And as universities seek to market courses as ‘sustainable’, what exactly are we selling students?
Education for Sustainability (EfS) or Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) made its way onto the educational stage during the UN Decade of ESD 2005-2014.
Pockets of dynamic sustainability learning have begun to emerge, building professional capabilities in a volatile world in which uncertainty prevails. National guidance has been developed, pointing the way to this practice, and subject benchmarking groups have begun to consider the issue.
