Blogs
Welcome to the EAUC blog! You will find a mixture of articles by our educational members, strategic partners, company members, and of course, ourselves. The featured articles show what is happening across the sector.
Please be mindful that the views and opinions expressed here belong to the blog author therefore are not necessarily reflective of the views and opinions of the EAUC.
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Do students know how to communicate about climate change? Public concern about climate change is at an all-time high, particularly among young people and students – but many concerned individuals are either unwilling or unaware of how to communicate their attitudes and knowledge of climate change to have a positive effect. Read thoughts from Matt Carew, Susie Ho, and Lucy Richardson at Monash University.
With the absence of concerted and effective leadership at an intergovernmental level, we need more community leaders from all parts of society to step up and fill the void of effective action – and our universities and colleges are ideally placed for this. A blog by Professor Joy Carter CBE, GuildHE Climate Commissioner for the Climate Commission for UK Higher and Further Education.
Learn how the Hillside team has supported Gloucestershire College with an environmental audit and report, business case and economic model, a successful application to finance the project, plus procurement of trusted suppliers.
Our new Sustainability in the Curriculum Project Officer in the Scotland Team, Lucy Patterson, explains why education for sustainable development matters to her, and why it must be a priority in colleges and universities.
Justin Morris - Programme Coordinator in the Colleges and Universities Team at Salix Finance talks about how decarbonisation sits at the heart of the Government’s green agenda.
Read Richard's thoughts on the future delivery of education, not just in the United Kingdom, but all around the world. Richard comes from a background where he twice had the ‘God’s Eye View’ of the very broad requirements and was in position to change things and to improve the eventual outcomes at a national or global level.
Dr Rehema White, an academic from the University of St Andrews, Chair of the Learning for Sustainability Scotland Steering Group, and one of our Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network Convenors, was a member of the QAA expert group tasked with revising and updating the ESD Guidance. Here she reflects on being part of that process and her hopes for the future of education.
COVID-19 has been at the forefront of the education sector's mind, so it is unsurprising that making eco-friendly changes has not been top of the to-do list. So, why is the government placing such a focus on the environment? In their latest blog, Hil...
Scott Strachan, one of our Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Topic Support Network Convenors and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, was asked about how the new QAA / Advance HE Guidance for the Higher Education Sector on ESD and will influence their work at the University.
This is a reproduction of an article by Christine Calder, Academic Development Lead at Dundee and Angus College and one of the EAUC-Scotland Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network Convenors, and Betsy King, Development Manager at Learning for Sustainability Scotland, for Inspiring Lecturers, a publication by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS), Colleges Scotland, and The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS). It outlines the general context for Education for Sustainable Development.
EAUC Trustees Simon Kemp and Jim Longhurst were centrally involved in developing the new QAA Guidance for the Higher Education Sector on Education for Sustainable Development. They share an outline of the guidance.
This collection of blogs from Advance HE provides diverse perspectives and ideas of sustainability in higher education, including contributions from Fiona Goodwin - Director of Operations and Planning at EAUC, Manveer Gill - Student Climate Commissioner and Professor Joy Carter - VC at University of Winchester and Climate Commissioner
The research community can only tackle the huge challenges posed by climate change and biodiversity loss by working together to embed sustainability at the very heart of higher education research and innovation, says Alison Robinson, NERC Deputy Exec...
Salix Finance's Natasha Mylett looks at how universities across the UK are continuing to develop and deliver their estate-wide carbon management plans in spite of the pandemic and a number of challenges facing Higher Education institutions.
The Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) team has written an article which focuses on how universities can benefit from HNIP funding and why heat networks are suited to campuses.
Sarah Clayton, Head of Citizen Behaviour Change at WRAP gives us the lowdown on the brand new WRAP campaign 'Food Waste Action Week' which runs 1st - 7th March 2021.
Student Magda Núñez talks about about how to better engage with your community on sustainability.
Sharon Parkinson, Senior Journals Publisher at Emerald Publishing, explores how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact is designed to inspire action among publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
Alison Robinson, Deputy Executive Chair at NERC, talks about the need to embed sustainability at the heart of higher education research and innovation to tackle the huge challenges posed by climate change.
Ecologist Dr Cecilia Medupin explains how engaging women from diverse backgrounds is a catalyst to environmental change.
