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Conrad Benefield, LSISEsin Esat, Bedford CollegeRick Olver, Southend Adult & Community CollegeGraham Petersen, UCU

The Sustainable Development Alliance for Learning & Skills:How can we best add value?

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Introducing your speakers

Conrad Benefield, Learning and Skills Improvement Service

Esin Esat, Bedford College

Rick Olver, Southend Adult and Community College, LEAFEA and HOLEX

Graham Petersen, South Thames College and University & College Union

Jimmy Brannigan, LSIS associate and ESD Consulting

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Aims of our session

Increase your awareness of the purpose and role of SDALS

Develop our understanding of the drivers and barriers to embedding sustainability

Shape and inform the developing SDALS purpose and approach

Introduce the support and expertise that SDALS can offer

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What we will cover

Who or what is SDALS?

What are the key strategic opportunities for taking sustainability forward?

What value can SDALS add in addressing these opportunities?

How SDALS and its members can help you

Review and final questions

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About SDALS – membership

AoC LantraEAUC LSIS

Bedford College NatspecHOLEX/LEAFEA NUS

IfL OfstedLandex UCU

The Sustainable Development Alliance for Learning & Skills

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About SDALS - purpose

To inspire and facilitate the learning and skills sector to fulfil its leading role in

embedding and demonstrating sustainable development

to meet the urgent challenges that our economy and society face.

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About SDALS - purpose

Working with the sector

Inspiring and supporting, not leading

Focusing on sustainable development

Within the economic and social context

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About SDALS - priorities

Engage with, explore and be a catalyst for thinking, policy, research and practice

Share thinking and engage with leaders, practitioners and stakeholders

Encourage Government, funding councils and Ofsted to collaborate

Actively champion effective practice, innovation and improvement and support providers in measuring that improvement

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About SDALS – a new focus

Increasingly, SDALS is looking to focus its work around the theme of socio-economic value, through:

Informing thinking, strategy and practice

Championing the embedding of socio-economic value by providers in teaching and learning, effective and sustainable leadership, partnerships and operations

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For discussion

What are the key strategic opportunities and drivers for taking sustainability forward at a strategic level:

Within your organisation

Within the FE/HE sector?

Does seeing sustainability in terms of ‘socio-economic value’ help? If so, how? If not, why not?

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For discussion

What value can SDALS add in taking this agenda forward?

What would you want to see in SDALS’ plans going forward, if SDALS is to make a difference in the ways envisaged in its purpose?

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What we can offer

How are individual SDALS members and their organisations contributing to this agenda?

What can they offer you?

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LSIS

Case studies and resources

Regional Sustainability Advisers

Framework and Reaching Forward Index

Research into teaching, learning and skills

Leaders of the Future programme

Conrad Benefieldconrad.benefield@lsis.org.uk

www.excellencegateway.org.uk/sustainability

Build your capability and confidence as a sustainability champion, whatever your level and experience

Varied programme of workshops, presentations, activities and discussions

£300 per person incl accommodation and meals – LSIS Accounts apply

https://events.lsis.org.uk/

Leaders of the Future 25-26 June 2013

Regional Sustainability Advisers

EM Roy Morgan-Wood rmorgan-wood@leicestercollege.ac.uk

EE Esin Esat eesat@bedford.ac.uk

Lon Graham Petersen graham.petersen@south-thames.ac.uk

NE Ann Anthony ann.anthony@stockton.ac.uk

NW Helen Cutts h.cutts@wigan-leigh.ac.uk

SE Howard Lee howard.lee@hadlow.ac.uk

SW Di Dale di.dale@wiltshire.ac.uk

WM Mark Phillips mark.phillips@southstaffs.ac.uk

YH Georgiana Weatherill

georgiana.weatherill@leedscitycollege.ac.uk

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Bedford College

10 years’ Sustainability in FE experience

Examples of SD in curricula & operations

www.greenbedfordcollege.com

SD projects (Skills, SMEs, community, EU)

Brundtland Building

Sustainability Leadership event on 9 May

Esin Esat, Regional Sustainability Adviser eesat@bedford.ac.uk

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HOLEX/LEAFEA

Access to two wide reaching networks representing Local Authorities and including Third Sector organisations

Good practice examples from the Adult and Community Learning Sector

Community engagement

Rick Olver rickolver@southend-adult.ac.uk

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UCU

Largest post-16 teaching trades union

Extensive network including membership of key sector bodies

Cross education sector link through TUC

Campaigning on national ESD policies via Green Skills Manifesto

Co-ordination of the Greener Jobs Alliance

Graham Petersengpetersen@ucu.org.uk

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EAUC

SORTED online resource for FE and skills organisations – www.eauc.org.uk/sorted

Sustainability Exchange - knowledge and resources from across FE and HE www.sustainabilityexchange.ac.uk

LiFE Index performance improvement system – www.thelifeindex.org.uk

Green Gown Awards

 info@eauc.org.uk

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AoC

Completed a substantive review of AoC’s role in the agenda, including consultation with member colleges

A new Sustainability Portfolio Group has been established to inform AoC strategy and activity in this area going forward

Ian Munro, AoC SW Regional Directorian_munro@aoc.co.uk

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If you don’t do anything else…

Your ‘aha’ moment

Give us further feedback on how SDALS can make a difference

Draw on the experience and expertise of leaders and practitioners in SDALS (including Esin, Rick and Graham)

Contact your Regional Sustainability Adviser

Explore LSIS and EAUC resources