Sustainable Development Conference 2009
Sustainable Development: Halfway There?
The conference opened by taking stock of the progress made to date by Scotland's universities and colleges. Discussion themes included:
- effective teaching practices for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD);
- strategies for institutional change;
- the obligation on educational institutions to provide leadership;
- the value of inter-disciplinary approaches to ESD; and
- the impact of sustainable estates on student learning.
Conference presentations
- David Beards, SFC - UN Decade & policy context [PPT]
- Alex Ryan, University of Gloucester - Sustainable development in Scotland’s Universities [PPT]
- Mitch Brown, HMIE - Sustainable development in Scotland’s Colleges [PPT]
- Ruth Bush, NUS Scotland - The Student Footprints project [PDF]
- Rehema White, University of St Andrews - Workshop: Campus and Curriculum [PDF]
- John Salter, Elmwood College - Workshop: Sustainable development in Scotland’s Colleges [PPT]