Sustainability and Scotland's Colleges: page 8

Sustainability and Scotland's Colleges

Colleges should:

provide guidance on college policies and strategies in sustainability within the induction programmes for new staff;
develop their policies and strategies for sustainability to define the essential knowledge, skills and behaviours for learners to develop;
develop and implement systematic approaches for embedding sustainable development within all programmes;
include sustainable development within their strategies for learning and teaching;
encourage and support student associations to include events and activities, which contribute to sustainable development; and
include sustainability issues within the induction programmes for learners and information as appropriate on the sustainable features within the design of college buildings.

To support developments nationally, SFC should consider:

encouraging Scotland’s Colleges to develop and disseminate to colleges guidance on embedding sustainable development within the curriculum;
promoting and disseminating good practice in sustainable development across the colleges; and
commissioning investigations to assess whether all colleges have the understanding and commitment, and whether they are sufficiently supported to address the skills implications for a low carbon and resource efficient economy.