Publications

The Future Graduate Skills Study examines what ‘sustainability skills’ are, which of those are important for employability prospects, and how they could be best instilled in students and young people.

The Climate Commission will develop an Action Plan in response to the government’s stated climate emergency and draw together a strategic sector-wide approach to the Climate Framework by the end of 2020.Discover the range of useful reports released to support this initiative.

EAUC commissioned this research paper to help Members understand how some in the sector are pushing strategic and structural boundaries and evolving new approaches which reflect a whole-institution approach to sustainability. As ever the dynamism, ambition and creativity in the sector has been evident as a wide range of approaches have been identified in the research. Each have their merits and none are necessarily better than the other, but are appropriate for that institution at this time and place. It’s for you to judge which approach might best work in your institution and help you advance your whole-institution approach where sustainability can become ‘just good business’.

Discover a selection of case studies and resources to help students and staff to lobby their institution to provide free sanitary products.

The Travel Better Package aims to support the reduction of air travel in the FHE sector, specifically amongst academics and staff. It also aims to support reflection on and reconfiguration of the FHE sector's relationship to air travel on an institutional and individual basis.

Climate change is not only a risk in itself to operational, teaching and research activities, but also a multiplier of many other risks.

Discover a range of opportunities for sustainability focused applied research and learning.

Sustainability provides exciting opportunities for value creation and risk mitigation and is key to institutional success over the long-term.

Sustainability leaders can make a successful case for sustainability in a Further and Higher Education context, embed sustainability at the top of their organisation and bring about systemic change in the way business decisions are made.

This SDG Accord report is the accountability mechanism of the SDG Accord, a high profile international initiative developed to allow the tertiary education sector to demonstrate its commitment to the SDGs.

The first annual Sustainability Leadership Scorecard Report summarises data submitted by 45 institutions in the UK and Ireland. Institutions using the tool are clearly able to point to concrete gains from use of the tool, whether in terms of benchmarking to similar institutions, gap analysis, or better high-level reporting of sustainability information.