SustainCase: How Plymouth University encourages and enables students to engage with sustainability issues
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Case study: How Plymouth University encourages and enables students to engage with sustainability issues
Plymouth University, enjoying a growing reputation for sustainability, is committed to embedding sustainability issues and principles into its academic programmes, enabling its almost 20,000 students to engage with sustainability topics and equipping them with the skills and knowledge needed to implement sustainability practices in their future workplace.
Abstract
Plymouth University strives to ensure that sustainability is firmly embedded into its courses and that students are able to engage with sustainability principles, learning from sustainability best practice across the University and beyond. In order to encourage and enable students to engage with sustainability issues Plymouth University took action to:
• advance the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) agenda through the Centre for Sustainable Futures
• embed sustainability into the formal and informal curriculum
• foster extra-curricular sustainability learning
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