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HEFCE Review of Sustainable Development EAUC Conference 2007

HEFCE Review of Sustainable Development EAUC Conference 2007. Malcolm Rigg/Kate McGeevor Policy Studies Institute. Why a review?. To be able to assess where HE sector stands To be able to measure sector over time To support HEIs in progressing sustainable development. What kind of review?.

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HEFCE Review of Sustainable Development EAUC Conference 2007

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  1. HEFCE Review of Sustainable DevelopmentEAUC Conference 2007 Malcolm Rigg/Kate McGeevor Policy Studies Institute

  2. Why a review? • To be able to assess where HE sector stands • To be able to measure sector over time • To support HEIs in progressing sustainable development

  3. What kind of review? • ‘light-touch’ • Minimise burden on HEIs • Use existing data/measures where possible • HEFCE ‘not seeking to introduce sector-wide reporting or funding by SD performance’

  4. Review team • PSI co-ordination • PSI leads on • Research • Corporate Sustainable Development • Centre for Research in Education and the Environment (CREE), University of Bath, leads on Curriculum • PA leads on managing change

  5. Conceptual framework • Four capitals/resources • Environmental/natural resources • Manufactured (e.g. buildings) • Human • Social

  6. Research Strand • Develop and validate search terms • Search HEI web-sites to identify • Number of researchers engaged in SD • Number of students • Levels of funding by type: RCs, Government, etc. • Supplement with info from HEIs • Search for 2001 RAE papers submitted • Search outputs from 2001-2005

  7. Teaching/curriculum strand • Develop and test search criteria • Search for incidence of SD teaching in HEI courses from websites • Supplement by HEI information

  8. Focus today mainly on corporate SD • Estates • Procurement • Community

  9. Key tasks of review • Propose a benchmark • What are core impacts/actions that should be measured? • Based on existing data/practices where possible • Identify obstacles and problems • Identify examples of good practice

  10. Candidates for inclusion • Resources used • Emissions • Construction & maintenance • Procurement & supply chain • Waste and recycling • Biodiversity • Travel management • Community engagement

  11. Can performance be captured by numbers alone? • Circumstances differ • Don’t tell full story • Historical, not forward looking • Don’t identify priorities, rationale, commitment, ambition

  12. What kind of qualitative measures? • Self-assessment of HEI’s distance travelled, targets, plans? • Key documents published • Policy? • Strategy? • How reported in aggregate?

  13. Issues • Demands to identify poor performers • FOI issues • Some HEIs are/will publish their performance

  14. How you can help us? • Share experiences with us • Value of benchmarks? • Soft measures? • Experience/value of Environmental Management Systems • Other helpful tools? • Problems and obstacles • ‘good practice’/what you have learnt • Knowledge of international examples • Links between corporate, teaching and research?

  15. What would you like from the review? • Now! • Email • Malcolm Rigg m.rigg@psi.org.uk • Kate McGeevor k.mcgeevor@psi.org.uk

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