Education
The University’s principle strategy, Transforming Bedfordshire, commits to promoting sustainability. Specifically, its Education and Student Experience Strategy sets out the commitment to:
“..Students will be actively engaged in real-world challenges, working with the community, employers and researchers to define challenges and collaboratively problem solve to enable students and the University to contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.”
Through the University's sustainable initiatives, including the implementation of the University of Bedfordshire Business School’s membership of the UN Principle of Responsible Management and the Curriculum Framework Review 2023, we aim to:
“…strengthen the emphasis on inclusivity, employability, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and well-being.”
This is achieved through:
- Bedfordshire’s Curriculum Framework: A Curriculum for the Real World
- Availability of an interactive Employability Toolkit, that provides ideas to embed the UN SDGs for enhancement and new course design (see final pages).
- An audit process is underway during AY23-24 to map existing provisions and provide baseline data on the extent to which the UN SDGs are embedded.
Our priorities and approaches also reflect HE sector best practices and are further; supported by the Academy for Learning & Teaching Excellence; informed by the curriculum framework, Student Experience Strategy and Sustainability Strategy [PDF]; and shaped by the creativity of academics and students from the Sustainability Forum.
