Section E – Sustainability:
5.7 There is a growing and important focus on sustainability in higher education which impacts across the curriculum and influences approaches to teaching and learning. This means staff will increasingly need to understand and articulate the nature and value of the sustainability agenda. As a support for this, the revised UKPSF incorporates sustainability literacy within the new professional value of ‘global citizenship’.
 
Question 7:
Comment is invited on the location of the sustainability focus within ‘global citizenship’,
one of the Framework’s professional values.

• HE in the UK undergoing a period of significant change, unprecedented for a generation: public funding to be cut drastically, students to become increasingly consumer-focused, and the market to drive quality of provision
• HE sector in need of rising to the sustainability challenge in more strategic and holistic ways and embedding sustainable development into the overall student experience. This includes learning, teaching and curricula – with the intention of ensuring future graduates are globally aware and responsible citizens in the 21st century
• Employers demanding sustainably-literate graduates. Students demanding future-proof skills. UK Government’s vision for a new “green economy” presenting a range of opportunities and demands from the workforce
  

• The Higher Education Academy’s Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Project is launching an exciting new change programme, in association with the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) and the National Union of Students (NUS), to help institutions achieve these goals. Although founded on a similar concept to our flagship change programme, Change Academy, its focus is developmental –specifically on ESD – and is being run as a pilot for this academic year
• Eight HEI teams + a team leaders’ meeting + a two-day residential + a final team leaders’ meeting = time, space and resources to progress change