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Education for Sustainability in Higher Education

Target GroupBachelor, MasterResource TypeReportDomainGeneral KnowledgeDuration1h to ≤ 2hAuthorUniversity of Gloucestershire
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Summary

The University of Gloucestershire’s EFS (Environment, Food, and Sustainability) & Quality portal provides staff and students with policies, procedures, and resources to embed sustainability and quality across academic programming. It includes guidelines for curriculum enhancement, module auditing, sustainability learning outcomes, and assessment design. The portal supports consistent integration of environmental education and academic standards via quality assurance frameworks.

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How to use

Use this portal as a model in pedagogical workshops on curriculum design. Assign staff to adapt auditing tools for local contexts. Use guidelines to develop sustainability embedded assessments, learning outcomes, and rubrics. Facilitate peer-review sessions during course planning meetings. Encourage reflective practice through module-level mapping of environmental integration. Share outcomes in faculty development forums. Align resource use with institutional quality requirements and accreditation frameworks.

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Report

Provide detailed formatting guidelines and evaluation criteria upfront. Students should demonstrate comprehensive understanding through systematic analysis and clear communication. Establish peer review processes to improve quality before final submission. Use reports as capstone experiences that integrate multiple course concepts and demonstrate advanced analytical capabilities.

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    Subject area
    • General KnowledgeThis section provides general frameworks and concepts related to sustainability that can be used in any discipline and across industries.
    • Specific KnowledgeThis section provides sustainability related content that would enable students following a business or management degree or course to be better equipped to face sustainability related challenges.
      • Economics
      • Management
      • Finance, banking, insurance
      • Marketing and advertising
    Competence area
    • Problem-solving
    • Critical thinking
    • Self-awareness
    • Collaboration
    • Normative awareness
    • Anticipatory thinking
    • Systems thinking
    • Strategy
    Learning approach
    • Cognitive learning
    • Socio-emotional learning
    • Behavioural learning
    • Subject area
      • General KnowledgeGeneral knowledge represents foundational understanding across multiple disciplines needed for sustainable development. It creates an integrated mindset that connects basic and advanced topics across various knowledge domains.
      • Economics
      • Management
      • Finance, banking, insurance
      • Marketing and advertising
    • Skill area
      • Problem-solving
      • Critical thinking
      • Self-awareness
      • Collaboration
      • Normative awareness
      • Anticipatory thinking
      • Systems thinking
      • Strategy
    • Learning approach
      • Cognitive learning
      • Socio-emotional learning
      • Behavioural learning
  • Communities
  • Education for sustainability
  • About us
  • Resources
    Subject area
    • General KnowledgeThis section provides general frameworks and concepts related to sustainability that can be used in any discipline and across industries.
    • Specific KnowledgeThis section provides sustainability related content that would enable students following a business or management degree or course to be better equipped to face sustainability related challenges.
      • Economics
      • Management
      • Finance, banking, insurance
      • Marketing and advertising
    Competence area
    • Problem-solving
    • Critical thinking
    • Self-awareness
    • Collaboration
    • Normative awareness
    • Anticipatory thinking
    • Systems thinking
    • Strategy
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    • Cognitive learning
    • Socio-emotional learning
    • Behavioural learning
    • Subject area
      • General KnowledgeGeneral knowledge represents foundational understanding across multiple disciplines needed for sustainable development. It creates an integrated mindset that connects basic and advanced topics across various knowledge domains.
      • Economics
      • Management
      • Finance, banking, insurance
      • Marketing and advertising
    • Skill area
      • Problem-solving
      • Critical thinking
      • Self-awareness
      • Collaboration
      • Normative awareness
      • Anticipatory thinking
      • Systems thinking
      • Strategy
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      • Cognitive learning
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