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Skills for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the FE System

This presentation explores how further education can contribute to a more sustainable future by providing learners with specialist skills, literacy in sustainability, and building capacity within organizations. It also examines the challenges faced by the FE system and the actions taken by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to embed sustainable development in everyday work.

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Skills for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the FE System

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  1. Skills for Sustainability – an LSC perspective 1 April 2008 Presented to the EAUC Annual Conference By Rob Wye Welcome

  2. Leitch commitment 01

  3. Sustainable development….is the defining challenge of the 21st century. If the nation is to play its full part in challenging global poverty and combating environmental problems like climate change, it is imperative that everyone in this country develops the skills of sustainable living and working. That means placing sustainable development at the heart of skills provision, ensuring it is a fundamental goal of our economic and social progress.’ • World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England, Page 20

  4. Opportunities and Challenges 02

  5. Opportunities • Further education can contribute to a more sustainable future by: • Providing learners with specialist skills • Giving all learners literacy in sustainability • Building the capacity of our leaders and champions • Building the capacity of our staff • Changing & leading as organisations • Better managing our buildings & estates • Being better community partners • Keeping skills for sustainability at the top of the agenda

  6. Challenges for the FE system • Machinery of Government changes • Time and resources – many other priorities • What do employers need? • Building the capacity of FE staff • Harnessing and building learner enthusiasm • Working collaboratively – lining up the ‘supply chain’ behind sustainable development • Measuring progress • What will the FE system look like as an exemplar? • What are skills for sustainability?

  7. Challenges for theLSC • Changing the culture of a multi-sited organisation • Machinery of Government changes • Time and resources - many other priorities • Changing established internal policies • Working collaboratively with external partners • Getting more involved regionally • Embedding sustainable development in outward facing policy • What will an organisation like the LSC look like as an exemplar?

  8. What are we doing about it? 03

  9. Our actions – looking inward as the LSC • On-line survey of LSC staff – summer 2007 • Strategy for communicating and embedding • sustainable development in everyday working • Framework of targets for the LSC as an organisation • Reviewing options for staff capacity building • Take forward through Machinery of Government changes – see them as an opportunity

  10. Our actions – looking outwards as an LSC • Investment in the FE estate & environment • Buildings • Energy Efficiency Grants • E-learning • Launched SORTED with EAUC • Working with CEL to establish the Partners’ Forum

  11. Our Plans • Prioritise and build our impact – SD Action Plan, Sustainable Capital Action Plan. • Work with EAUC to build SORTED • Work with CEL to establish the Partners’ Forum as a way of achieving a joined-up approach • Implement our strategy to embed sustainable development in everyday work at the LSC • Invest in capacity building for LSC staff • Start to measure our progress as an organisation against targets • Build sustainable development into the organisations that succeed the LSC

  12. Skills for Sustainability – Key Points 04

  13. What’s needed? • Commitment to change as organisations • Actions not words • More anticipation and forward-thinking • Better understanding of employers’ needs • Everyday sustainability skills • Be joined–up around skills for sustainability • Promotion of sustainable capital development • Think long-term. • We need to contribute individually as providers, agencies, representative bodies etc. But we must also work together as an FE system.

  14. Sustainable Capital Development 05

  15. What are we doing? • Excellent BREEAM rating will be required for most new capital projects • Zero carbon colleges – target for 2016 • Commissioned major report from Arup on how to achieve zero carbon – due Spring 2008 • Positive measures to promote sustainable building – sustainable development action plan

  16. LSC Sustainable Development Action PlanKey Points • Salix Energy Efficiency Scheme - £22 million of energy and carbon saving projects • New sustainable development capital grants for 2008-09 • Increasing minimum BREEAM requirement for “very good” (aspiring to excellent) to excellent • Working with RIBA to promote sustainability in new developments

  17. Contacts 06

  18. SORTED –www.eauc.org.uk/sorted • LSC website – www.lsc.gov.uk • Contact - mary.kelly@lsc.gov.uk • Contact – Philip.head@lsc.gov.uk

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