Dear ACTS Members,
Dr Nathan Cassidy, Policy Officer with Universities Australia, has requested ACTS members assistance with a UA research project to help progress the National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability, Living Sustainably (request below). As the report needs to be complied by the end of October, could you please provide information by Friday 23 October 2009.
We will also be putting this information up on the ACTS website. Thanks in advance for your assistance to Universities Australia and in helping build ACTS into the type of organisation you want.
Regards,
Lania
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Universities Australia is a member of the National Council on Education for Sustainability, which will progress certain actions under the Australian Government’s National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability, Living Sustainably (NAP). Contained within the NAP are actions pertaining specifically to the university sector. These actions involve strategies to develop whole-of-institution sustainability programs (including research; teaching and learning and campus management); sustainability incentives scheme for universities; and sustainability networks to improve co-ordination, share best practice and communicate concepts within universities as well as sustainability for key professions through integration of sustainability into professional learning qualifications and university degree accreditation.
As a background to this work Universities Australia has been asked to compile a short background snapshot of where the higher education sector is currently placed in terms of a) campus green programs and environmental management and b) education for sustainability.
I would ask those of you who are interested to provide me with short blurbs about what your university is doing in either or both of these two spaces. I understand that there is a range of practice in the sector and some institutions are doing more than others. In the interests of providing an honest snapshot of the whole sector, I would urge that you provide information even if you are not proud of your institution’s progress.
I need to have this report compiled by the end of October, so I would ask that you provide the information to me by Friday 23 October 2009.
Please contact me directly if you have any queries on 02 6285 8105.
Universities Australia is planning to become more involved in sustainability issues in the near future, and looks forward to a deeper relationship with ACTS.
Regards,
Nathan Cassidy