Project scoops UN award
A project led by Senior Lecturer Dr Rehema White from the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, and funded by The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, received a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) United Nations University Recognition Award for an Outstanding Flagship Project, through RCE Scotland.
The project centred on Monitoring and Evaluating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Higher Education.
Dr White said: “We hope that our framework for monitoring and evaluating ESD will help to ensure every graduate is a potential change agent, equipped with the abilities to know, do and be the transformation to sustainability.”
Dr White and other members of RCE Scotland were also part of an international team that won an Honourable Mention through RCE Czechia for the Frontiers in Sustainability Special Issue on RCEs and ESD. RCE Scotland also won an Outstanding Flagship Project award for supporting teachers in ESD.
The aim of this Handbook is to support a reflective, collaborative approach to monitoring and evaluation to strengthen the quality of education for sustainable development in universities. We present a framework, tools, and case studies to offer practical support underpinned by theory.