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Learning about Sustainability
Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the importance of education in achieving a sustainable future (often referred to as Education for Sustainable Development –ESD or Education for Sustainability - EfS) has been internationally recognised. The goals of ESD are to ensure everyone is able to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values necessary to shape a sustainable future. In recognition of the importance of ESD, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2005-2014 the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
What does this mean to Keele?
At Keele we take seriously our role in educating for a more sustainable future. Creating a more environmentally-aware and sustainable outward facing campus community is one of the University’s six strategic aims. There are many ways for staff and students to learn more about sustainability at Keele. If you are interested in ways that schools, businesses or communities can learn more about sustainability at Keele then we also have resources for you.
Recent Education for Sustainable Development developments at Keele
- In 2011 Keele was one of eight institutions to take part in the HEA’s highly regarded pilot ‘Green Academy’ change programme, aimed at supporting institution-wide embedding of sustainability.
- In 2012 Keele created the new university-wide role of ‘Director of Education for Sustainability’, to support the embedding of sustainability into the curriculum and student experience.
- In 2011 the new ‘Distinctive Keele Curriculum’ has been developed, making sustainability one of three core themes running through all curriculum and co-curriculum developments at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
- In 2011 the new Keele University Sustainability Hub opened, providing a base for schools, businesses and communities to learn more about sustainability.
