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The Sustainable Development Education Panel
In 1998 a Government Sustainable Development Education Panel was established to consider issues on education for sustainable development, in its broadest sense, in schools, further and higher education, at work, during recreation and at home; and to make practical recommendations for action in England. The Panel reported at the end of its five-year term in 2003 and its work has been taken forward in documents like the Government’s sustainable development action plan for the education sector and work on sustainable schools initiative (click here to go to their website).
The general idea is that sustainable development education should be a seamless process which begins in the nursery and is then systematically progressed throughout the formal education process and reinforced in society. The Panel set out its key aims for the further and higher education sectors (FHE) in its first Annual Report. It called for all FHE organisations, by the year 2010 to:
Further guidance on the Sustainable Development for Education approach can be found in the Section on Teaching and Learning.
The general idea is that sustainable development education should be a seamless process which begins in the nursery and is then systematically progressed throughout the formal education process and reinforced in society. The Panel set out its key aims for the further and higher education sectors (FHE) in its first Annual Report. It called for all FHE organisations, by the year 2010 to:
- be accredited to an internationally or nationally recognised sustainable development management systems standard; and
- have staff fully trained and competent in sustainable development; and be providing all learners with relevant sustainability learning opportunities.
Further guidance on the Sustainable Development for Education approach can be found in the Section on Teaching and Learning.
