Education for Sustainable Development X: Access and Success
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To raise a generation of critical thinkers who act sustainably, higher education must look beyond prestige and profit to a more profound commitment to student access and success. Through opening access, we unleash potential. Through building capacity for success, we gain the agency to achieve our goals.
New Zealand’s Te Wananga o Aotearoa – one of the nation’s Maori tertiary education institutions – illustrates how culture can help improve education among an indigenous population alongside a Western education system, improving educational access and success and delivering high-level qualifications relevant to today’s world.
Through an ambitious agenda, the respected Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico is integrating Education for Sustainable Development across curricula while expanding student access through scholarships and inclusive practices, encouraging a more diverse student body to drive social change and tackle real-world sustainability challenges.
Sustainability-focussed projects can easily be introduced in any discipline. Students at TU Dublin in Ireland are made aware of sustainability issues and solutions and they work in teams on real-world problems, which gives them a sense of belonging. This increases the chances of student success, says the university’s Dr Brian Gormley.