Resources
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 Learning and Skills Council's Review of Skills.
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.
Case Studies
Cambridge Regional College addressed sustainability across the instinstitution for the benefit of local business
An unusual but easily replicable approach to integrating ESD into the teacher training curriculum at a group of colleges across the South West was led by Somerset College.
A focus on energy and water linked to student engagement has led to a series of changes at Myerscough College
Building carbon footprinting into the ‘Working with Communities’ NQ Intermediate programme.
Bedford College provides an important example of how an institution can embed sustainability into its curriculum by actively seeking support and guidance from both the education sector and industry.
This CaSPr case study looks at using the Curriculum to Implement ISO14001 at Elmwood College.
This case study demonstrates how a small institution, without the specialist knowledge needed, can use the skills of other organisations and initiatives to integrate sustainability into college practices.
A useful example of how different education providers can work together to spread sustainable development and global skills across their curricula.
An example of using an existing programme such as the Global Citizens College initiative to enthuse students.
This case study demonstrates how a culture change can take place to embed sustainability into a college and its curriculum.
An example of a college integrating sustainability into the curriculum and engaging its students to make them more environmentally aware.
This institution has successfully embedded sustainability into all areas of the curriculum, and has made a big environmental impact through small scale schemes.