Calls to move sustainability plans in education up the agenda

The workshop, How can we integrate sustainable development in the tertiary sector?, organised by UCU and the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), will have a particular focus on the need for coherent strategies for different education sectors - adult and community learning, work-based learning, further education and higher education.
 
UCU says it is alarmed at the lack of strategies to embed sustainability in education. The union pointed to recent proposals to drop climate change from the geography syllabus in schools as an example of how even limited progress could be reversed.
 
UCU environment co-ordinator, Graham Petersen, said: 'We simply do not have clear policy drivers in place to ensure sustainability places a key role in tertiary education. While the Welsh government is consulting on a legal requirement to make sustainability a core organising principle for all public sector organisations, there is little by way of a co-ordinated strategy in England.
 
'Delegates at the workshop will identify the main changes needed to promote sustainability across all parts of the sector.'

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