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Welcome to our new resource, SORTED, supporting From Here to Sustainability, our strategy for sustainable development.
The LSC has been committed to sustainable development since 2000/01 when we funded a project to disseminate good practice, followed by the publication of the strategy in 2005 and most recently a 2007/08 Action Plan.
Since 2005, sustainability issues have increasingly become part of our everyday conversations at home and at work. Publications like the Stern Review have given us more evidence, if we needed it, of our impact on our planet. We share the growing realisation that we must do far more if we are to meet our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to do the same.
Some of our partners in the FE system have already made real progress towards being exemplars of sustainable development and there are also examples of good practice within the LSC. But we all need to step up our effort and in this light we particularly welcome the Leitch Implementation Plan’s commitment to ‘placing sustainable development at the heart of skills provision, ensuring that it is a fundamental goal of our economic and social progress’. This makes sustainable development a shared goal for the FE System – such a level of collaboration is essential when all have a clear and interdependent contribution to make.
To step up our own contribution we have started to plan around two key outcomes.
We hope these online resources will be a catalyst for change. We have tried to bring together the latest information and advice and to show our latest thinking – on Leadership and Management as a key driver for instance, rather than Positioning the Sector, and on Business and Community. Please use SORTED to help take a first step in changing culture and behaviour, to extend your current change process to another area, or however suits you best.
The Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges (EAUC) are hosting the resources on their website. We will work with EAUC to provide a way to update them.
This is important because we want SORTED to be owned by the FE system. They can only be a starting point as they are today. There is more experience and good practice to learn from for instance and the perspective of all types of providers needs to be better represented. We therefore encourage everyone to think about how you can contribute to SORTED as well as using it. Did a different approach work for you? Could your experience be a case study for others? In this way the resources will grow and develop over time in a way that truly meets your needs.
Our thanks go to Ecotec, EAUC, Professor Stephen and Maureen Martin and everyone else who helped to develop the resources.
Rob Wye, National Director of Strategy, Communications and Learning
Caroline Neville, Regional Director, East of England and Chair of the LSC Sustainable Development Implementation and Delivery Group
Welcome to our new resource, SORTED, supporting From Here to Sustainability, our strategy for sustainable development.
The LSC has been committed to sustainable development since 2000/01 when we funded a project to disseminate good practice, followed by the publication of the strategy in 2005 and most recently a 2007/08 Action Plan.
Since 2005, sustainability issues have increasingly become part of our everyday conversations at home and at work. Publications like the Stern Review have given us more evidence, if we needed it, of our impact on our planet. We share the growing realisation that we must do far more if we are to meet our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to do the same.
Some of our partners in the FE system have already made real progress towards being exemplars of sustainable development and there are also examples of good practice within the LSC. But we all need to step up our effort and in this light we particularly welcome the Leitch Implementation Plan’s commitment to ‘placing sustainable development at the heart of skills provision, ensuring that it is a fundamental goal of our economic and social progress’. This makes sustainable development a shared goal for the FE System – such a level of collaboration is essential when all have a clear and interdependent contribution to make.
To step up our own contribution we have started to plan around two key outcomes.
- changing as an organisation so that we become an example of good practice
- being a catalyst for change in the FE system, encouraging, supporting and working with our partners to realise its potentially huge contribution.
We hope these online resources will be a catalyst for change. We have tried to bring together the latest information and advice and to show our latest thinking – on Leadership and Management as a key driver for instance, rather than Positioning the Sector, and on Business and Community. Please use SORTED to help take a first step in changing culture and behaviour, to extend your current change process to another area, or however suits you best.
The Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges (EAUC) are hosting the resources on their website. We will work with EAUC to provide a way to update them.
This is important because we want SORTED to be owned by the FE system. They can only be a starting point as they are today. There is more experience and good practice to learn from for instance and the perspective of all types of providers needs to be better represented. We therefore encourage everyone to think about how you can contribute to SORTED as well as using it. Did a different approach work for you? Could your experience be a case study for others? In this way the resources will grow and develop over time in a way that truly meets your needs.
Our thanks go to Ecotec, EAUC, Professor Stephen and Maureen Martin and everyone else who helped to develop the resources.
Rob Wye, National Director of Strategy, Communications and Learning
Caroline Neville, Regional Director, East of England and Chair of the LSC Sustainable Development Implementation and Delivery Group
