The Community for Environmental Disciplines in Higher Education (CEDHE) Committee invite you to join them in discussion at the 2024 AGM and Forum. Secure your place today!
The Community for Environmental Disciplines in Higher Education (CEDHE) Committee invite you to join them in discussion at the 2024 AGM and Forum. Secure your place today!
This is our vision for the future of environmental science. It is one where environmental scientists are knowledgeable, skilled, diverse, trusted, and engaged in the process of transformation. It is one where people have access to the relevant science to help them solve environmental challenges and co-create a sustainable society where people and nature thrive.
This year’s FREE online CEDHE Forum, on Thursday 23rd May, will share a vision for optimism, evidence and skills based on the IES Future of ES23 project, Transforming the planet: Our vision for the future of environmental science. We will focus on three core themes linked to the vision statement: Education for Sustainable Development, Climate Anxiety and Optimism and Communicating Environmental Science. Each theme will form a session that will be explored by a provocation, followed by a workshop and presentation. The forum will give attendees the opportunity to participate in group discussions with colleagues about how different universities embed these core themes into their programmes.
Please note: The CEDHE AGM (CEDHE Institutional members only) will be held between 09:30 and 10:00am, and will be followed by the CEDHE Forum (members and non-members welcome) from 10:00am to 3:15pm. Registration to this event will be for both the AGM and Forum, consider amending the calendar invite to start at 11am if you are not a CEDHE Institutional member or only wish to attend the Forum.
Who should attend the Forum?
Academics & Researchers | Environmental Science Students & Graduates | PhD Students | Non-teaching University Staff | CEDHE Members & Accreditation Contacts | Careers advisors | Employers of Environmental Science Graduates
As skills for our transition to a net zero economy become increasingly important to employers, we explore what specific skills employers want from Environmental Science graduates in 2023, and beyond.
This year’s FREE online CEDHE Forum, on Thursday 25th May, will delve into this theme, aiming to identify the specialist net zero skills applicable to the environmental sciences, but also more broadly what range of skills employers want to see in environmental science graduates that will allow their businesses to meet their net zero commitments.
Environmental scientists will be a driving force in the transition to net zero. Practitioners with practical field and lab-based skills, underpinned by core scientific knowledge, are going to be increasingly important in meeting the challenges of the future. However, what specific skills do employers see as being essential for their net zero transition, and how can they be embedded into the curriculum?
The Forum will allow programme teams to hear from a range of employers in the sector, through panel discussions and presentations about the net zero skills they need, and will further give attendees the opportunity to participate in group discussions with colleagues about how different universities embed net zero skills into their programmes.
Each session will be followed by Q&A, allowing all attendees an opportunity to contribute.
Please note: The CEDHE AGM (CEDHE Institutional members only) will be held between 10:00 and 11:00am, and will be followed by the CEDHE Forum (members and non-members welcome) from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Registration to this event will be for both the AGM and Forum, consider amending the calendar invite to start at 11am if you are not a CEDHE Institutional member or only wish to attend the Forum.
Who should attend the Forum?
Academics & Researchers | Environmental Science Students & Graduates | PhD Students | Non-teaching University Staff | CEDHE Members & Accreditation Contacts | Careers advisors | Employers of Environmental Science Graduates
]]>The fourth annual Global Goals Teach In will take place on 22nd February – 5th March 2021.
SOS-US invites all educators to pledge now using an online form to incorporate the SDGs in their teaching, learning and assessment throughout the Teach In, and share with their colleagues.
The annual campaign calls on educators to pledge to include the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) in their teaching and learning throughout the two weeks. The 2020 campaign saw over 300 educators reach 25,000 students in discussion around the SDGs and their relevance to a subject.
To add some friendly competition, SOS-UK will be releasing weekly updates with a leaderboard of the institutions that are reaching the highest percentage of their students with the Teach In, and the institutions with the highest number of educators who have pledged.
The Education for Sustainable Development Guidance, originally developed and published in 2014, has undergone a major review in 2020.
This guidance is intended to serve as a reference point for use in curriculum design, delivery and review.
The consultation closes on 22nd January 2021.
]]>The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6), UNEP’s flagship integrated environmental assessment, launched in 2019, stresses that the scale of the environmental challenges we face requires true transformational change in how we produce and consume energy and food as well as how we manage waste, rather than simply incremental policies and business as usual. The Technical Summary of GEO-6 distils the science and data in the main report and synthesizes the information to make it more accessible to students and scientists, making it more useful both for teaching and learning at the university level.
On 3 December 5:00-6:30 pm EAT, the Technical Summary will be presented in a webinar that will focus on how to use GEO-6 and the Technical Summary as a teaching tool at university level. Panellists will include university professors who have participated in the GEO process and use GEO as a teaching tool, to discuss their experience and provide advice and lesson learned for university students and lecturers.
Speakers include: