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Leadership
The Genesis Project at Somerset College is a good example of an integrated approach to sustainable development.
A guide from the UNEP and Futerra on producing good public sustainability campaigns.
This report is on an HE project using the BITC Corporate Social Responsibility index to measure success in the sector.
This paper explores the uptake of Environmental Management Systems in universities.
Department for Education and Skills (DfES) White Paper, published March 2006
An LSN guide, including a summary of good practice and a checklist.
This research explores ways of promoting organisational innovation and cultural change.
A three-part introduction to Sustainable Development
Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL), London South Back University and Forum for the Future: (September 2007).
This guide reviews 20 standards and guidelines relevant to sustainable development.
These guidelines should provide clear, practical advice to organisations to enable them to make a meaningful contribution to sustainable development.
A checklist to assess organisational performance.
This is the Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit from Project SIGMA, which aims to provide clear, practical advice to organisations to help them make a meaningful contribution to sustainable development.
A report looking a good practice and recommendations for further developments.
An Ofsted report looking at practical case studies in schools.
An international declaration of the principles for a just, sustainable society.
This guide contains a useful self-assessment resource sheet.
Learning
This short film illustrates how college students can get a practical insight into job opportunities in the low carbon economy...
This video shows the final Project ReDesign workshop which took place in Oxford ...
In a world of rising materials and energy costs, how could the electric car, with the right infrastructure, work in a circular economy?
In this Ellen MacArthur Foundation video, six winners of the Project ReDesign workshops travel to Feltham to take part in a unique internship with global communications company Cisco ...
This Ellen MacArthur Foundation video is on the Project ReDesign National Grid Internship: The Future of Energy ...
This Ellen MacArthur Foundation video shows the biologist and ecologist at the design table. Products and processes which use nature as mentor, model and measure ...
In this video from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, six winners of the Project ReDesign workshops travelled to Adastral Park to take part in a unique internship with telecommunications company BT ...
This video features the third Project ReDesign workshop which took place at the National Museum of Wales ...
The launch of Project ReDesign at Glasgow Science Centre saw a group of six students from Hutchesons' Grammar School win the first of five week long internships within a leading UK industry ...
Channel 4 Newscaster Jon Snow talks to Dame Ellen MacArthur about the circular economy and rethinking the future ...
This video is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation film which introduces the idea of a Circular Economy ...
In this video on the Circular Economy from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a mad professor (comedian Steve Punt) questions the way we do things ...
This video on the Circular Economy from the Ellen MacArthur Foundaion takes us on a journey ...
This LSC curriculum guide highlights ways in which you can create the conditions to allow sustainable development to be embedded in the curriculum by supporting your staff to make it happen.
"How can I embed sustainable development into to what I teach when I don’t really understand what it means?" This LSC curriculum guide aims to help learning providers on this journey.
A New Economics Foundation report.
This toolkit has been designed to help develop understanding and skills with regard to relational or systems thinking. It can be used as a professional development course for teachers and individual units can be selected for classroom activities.
Learning resources for post-16 education from the QIA for key stage 4 citizenship.
Part of the AoC's Green Colleges initiative.
A research report published by the learning and skills development agency.
The Government White Paper on Further Education, published in 2006 and the 2007 Update.
An LSN guide, including a summary of good practice and a checklist.
Teaching and Learnign materials produced by the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme to help the integration of citizenship education into post-16 education and training.
A report with examples of best practice about implementing the Healthy College Programme.
A government review to consider how to strengthen economic performance in regions, cities and localities throughout the country.
Following the Leitch Review on Skills, this is the Implementation Plan in England.
This good practice example highlights how Cambridge Regional College achieved an improvement in its teaching of modernised construction and, importantly, discovered how teaching and learning can be focused on learning by students not teaching by teachers
Three-year action plan for a whole school approach to implementing sustainable development.
A guide to developing cross-professional learning opportunities and tools.
This pack has been produced by the Quality Improvement Agency Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme to support the integration of citizenship into post-16 education and training.
A learning resource from the Quality Improvement Agency on citizenship education for young people on how individuals and groups can help to make sustainable development a reality.
The UK Government Sustainable Development Strategy.
The 2003 Sustainable Development Action Plan from the then Department for Education and Skills.
Current Practice and Future Developments.
A report looking at why and how to embed sustainable development into engineering courses.
The Government Review on the Economics of Climate Change.
Organisational Capacity
This is run by the Sustainable Development Unit in Defra, and is the government's own view on looking after its estate sustainably.
The LSC's National Capital Strategy 2008/9 - 2010/11
An introduction to what, why and how from the Carbon Trust.
Information about the support offered by the Carbon Trust
A guide to assessing your energy use
A self-assessment tool
A guide commissioned by AOSEC (Assoication of South East Colleges)
A guide to conserving water in FE colleges, written by the Association of South East Colleges
This paper explores the uptake of Environmental Management Systems in universities
These are the tools and resources from this 3 year Defra-funded project
This guide was published by the National Business Travel Network
An EAUC Presentation
The EAUC's Insight guide to the Hazardous Waste Directive that came into effect in 2005
How to Save Energy in Further Education Colleges
A guide written by the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development
Market Transformation's Quick Wins List
The Government's Sustainable Procurement Action Plan
The EAUC has produced a guide to provide advice and support to universities and FE providers about incorporating biodiversity into their environmental management considerations
A good practice guide for schools, offering advice and guidance on energy and water management, that may have some relevance to FE providers
The Government's 2007 Waste Strategy
A benchmarking study, carried out in 2000-03
The EAUC's Insight guide to the Waster Electronic and Electrical Equipment Regulations that came into effect in 2007
Transforming Government Procurement, published by HM Treasury in January 2007
This EAUC Insight Guide is essential in helping anyone responsible for buildings or energy in the education sector to understand what is required of them under the new regulations, including the requirements for Display Energy Certificates in education.
The 2005 UK Government Sustainable Development Strategy
A guide published by the Scottish Funding Council
2006 report on sustainable operations within the Government estate, written by the government's independent watchdog; the Sustainable Development Commission.
Partnerships
Comprehensive toolkit addressing the areas of ‘Commitment and Leadership, ‘Organisational Management’, “Teaching and Learning’ and ‘Community and Partnership’, including case studies.
Developed by CAG and WWF.
This case study provides a very useful example of how working in a local partnership can achieve a great deal for young people, and for the community as a whole.
This report is on an HE project using the BITC Corporate Social Responsibility index to measure success in the sector.
The Universities & Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and Forum for the Future produced this survey of young people entering Higher Education in 2007.
A government review to consider how to strengthen economic performance in regions, cities and localities throughout the country.
Project SIGMA aims to provide clear, practical advice to organisations to help them make a meaningful contribution to sustainable development. This is their Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit.
This comes from Forum for the Future and the Welsh Assembly Government's Procurement Initiative.
How to carry out a Community Audit.
Download the Review that looked at the skills and training required by professionals, planning authorities and developers.
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