Education for Sustainable Development guidance
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
This guidance, written with Advance HE, is intended to be of practical help to members working with students and staff to foster their knowledge, understanding and skills in the area of sustainable development. A separate resource supports students in actively engaging with their institution and students' union about ESD.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
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This video outlines what ESD looks like within the higher education sector. It also suggests how students can support this work within their own institutions, linking to other useful sources of information.
The video was launched at QAA’s Evolving Student Engagement Conference and provides a taster of ESD and how students can encourage their institutions to progress the sustainability agenda.
These short, practice-based case studies are intended to inspire others through providing practical examples of ESD activities - from single workshops to long-term community engagement projects.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
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Publication date: 23 Dec 2021
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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
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Publication date: 14 Mar 2022
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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
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Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Our Collaborative Enhancement Projects offer funding opportunities for small groups of our member institutions to work together on projects of shared interest. Projects cover a range of topics and interest areas, including Education for Sustainable Development. Find out more on the QAA website.
We are currently funding four Collaborative Enhancement Projects focused on different aspects of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
We invited each project team to share with us what meaningful ESD looks like from their perspective and how their work will better enable ESD.
In this video we have Students Driving Curriculum Quality for Sustainability, led by University of Gloucestershire in partnership with University of the Arts, London and Kings College London. The project team are working closely with students to test and develop shared standards in ESD, which do not yet exist - assessing the depth of sustainability in higher education course offers, and pushing to mainstream ESD for all courses; not leaving it to optional modules or specialist pathways.
In this video, Rehema White tells us more about Monitoring and Evaluating Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education, led by the University of St Andrews. Following an analysis of existing approaches to monitoring and evaluating ESD, the project team is developing principles and tools using quantitative measures and reflective approaches that strengthen the learning experience. The online resources will be adaptable and deployable across the sector at department, faculty and institutional level.
In this video, we find out more about De Montfort University's take on ESD and Academic Quality. The project team is co-developing a resource to make the alignment of ESD to staff and student academic quality processes more straightforward, providing templates and a range of institution-specific approaches to help inform future practices.
In this video, we find out more about Developing Phenomenal Learning with Staffordshire University, in partnership with Harper Adams University. The project introduces Phenomenon Based Learning as an effective pedagogic vehicle to build on the Education for Sustainable Development Guidance published by QAA and Advance HE. The project team will generate an evidence-informed Project SDG 4.7 Toolkit and further Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) to support higher education providers across the sector to work with students in the co-creation and implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and equitably within the curriculum, via Phenomenon Based Learning modelling.
This guidance document, authored by De Montfort University and available to our International Insights Members, introduces a range of ideas through which to explore and promote issues of sustainable development in transnational education (TNE).
This UNESCO document is the key publication supporting the Education 2030 Agenda. It frames ESD with reference to the delivery of the UN SDGs, while exploring learning objectives in relation to the SDGs and the integration of ESD principles in curricula.
The SDG Academy provides educational content on critical sustainability issues, including free online courses and the SDG Academy Library.