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Closing the Sustainability Skills Gap: Helping businesses move from pledges to progress
- Microsoft (WA)
This report helps make the case for greater curricular integration of sustainability. Here are some key quotes:
- “We cannot address climate change at the scale and speed required without developing ...
- Posted Aug. 18, 2023
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Does Specific CSR Training for Managers Impact Shareholder Value? Implications for Education in Sustainable Development
- University of Zaragoza
This study aims to analyze whether specific corporate social responsibility +CSR) training in sustainable development can boost the potential impact of CSR on shareholder value (i.e., corporate reputation, brand ...
- Posted Feb. 20, 2018
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Educating for Sustainability: 2017 Sustainable Campus Best Practices from ISCN and GULF Universities
- International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) (MA)
This report, which was released in conjuction with the 2017 World Economic Forum, contains case studies on educating for sustainability provided by 30 members of the International Sustainable Campus Network ...
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Energy Efficiency Jobs in America
This report finds that energy efficiency is a massive employer with 1.9 million jobs nationwide and thousands of jobs in each and every state. The report, based on U ...
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Connecting curriculum, capabilities and careers
- RMIT University
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The reported research aims to examine the extent to which sustainability capabilities have been delivered by a specific example of Education for Sustainability (EfS) and Education for Sustainable Development ...
- Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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Hospitality employers’ perceptions of technology for sustainable development: The implications for graduate employability
This paper investigates hospitality employers’ perspectives of two key interdisciplinary subjects, i.e. sustainable development and information technology in the context of hospitality education, particularly graduate employability. A qualitative approach ...
- Posted Sept. 11, 2017
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Employer attitudes towards, and skills for, sustainable development
- National Union of Students
- Higher Education Academy (York)
This report describes the results of an online survey of employers in the U.K. about sustainable development. Overall, employers believed the range of skills for sustainability to be important ...
- Posted Oct. 6, 2016
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Education for Sustainability, Graduate Capabilities, Professional Employment: How They All Connect
- RMIT University
Education for Sustainability (EfS) has an intimate relationship with professional employment as we seek to develop graduates who will take EfS values and understanding into their workplaces to build a ...
- Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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Are we educating engineers for sustainability?: Comparison between obtained competences and Swedish industry's needs
- Chalmers University of Technology
Purpose – The aim of this study is to contribute to the quality improvement and long‐term strategic development of education for sustainable development (ESD) in engineering education curricula.
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- Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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Developing strategies and leaders to succeed in a new era of sustainability: Findings and insights from the United Nations Global Compact‐Accenture CEO Study
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify leading CEOs’ views on sustainability and how they believe it is impacting the business environment, with a particular focus on the ...
- Posted Sept. 18, 2017
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Leadership Skills for a Sustainable Economy
Based on a survey of sustainability staff at member companies of The Prince of Wales’s Mayday Network on Climate Change and also member companies of Business in the Community ...
- Posted Oct. 6, 2016
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A New Era of Sustainability: CEO reflections on progress to date, challenges ahead and the impact of the journey toward a sustainable economy.
This report describes the results of a survey of 766 United Nations Global Compact member CEOs. Findings include:
- 93 percent of CEOs see sustainability as important to their company’s ...
- Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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Responding to environmental challenges: an initial assessment of higher education curricula needs by Australian planning professionals
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
Environmental planning education has become crucial given the projected implications of climate change for human settlements and nature. However, despite the identified importance of educating planners with regards to sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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Are Employers Seeking Sustainability Literate Graduates?
- Higher Education Academy (York)
Using structured questionnaires and follow-up semi‐structured telephone interviews, this study seeks to establish to what extent adoption of the sustainability agenda within higher education and built environment organisations ...
- Posted April 15, 2016
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Employable graduates for responsible employers
- Higher Education Academy (York)
This report explores links between sustainability and employability in the graduate job market in relation to higher education teaching and learning. This was achieved in two ways - firstly, by researching ...
- Posted July 28, 2017
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