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The Governor's Role in Education for Sustainable Development at College.  An event for Governors of Further Education Colleges.  Tuesday 6th December 2011 4:30-6:30pm at Lancashire Global Education Centre.

We were delighted that Alison Page, a Governor of Lancaster and Morecambe College since 2003, spoke at the event, sharing her experience of sustainable development within college governance. As well as acting as a college governor, Alison is Chief Executive of Furniture Matters (a local re-use and training charity) and plays a strategic role in a variety of other sustainability initiatives. [click here for more information].  Participants also learned more about the Sustainable Skills project, networked with Governors from colleges across the northwest, enjoyed festive refreshments and claimed their ‘goody bag' of useful resources to take away with them.

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'Sustainable Development - Beyond the Environment', Tuesday 14th June 2011 This event explored different aspects of sustainability, namely Economy, Society and Environment.

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FE Network Event - 'Networking & Sharing', Tuesday 5th April 2011.  This event gave colleagues from Colleges and education insitutions from across the north west the opportunity to meet and share discussions of ideas and useful resources.

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FE Network Event - 'Engaging Colleagues Through Questions', 15th February 2011.  This workshop was facilitated by freelance consultant Jo Matthews, Coaching for Responsible Leadership.  Participants explored how using the right questions and approaches can help build ‘buy in’ to sustainable development initiatives.  This was the first in a series of Network Events exploring Education for Sustainable Development in Further Education. 

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Conference - Teaching for Tomorrow: The Sustainability Challenge for Further Education, Preston Guild Hall (Lounge Bar), 10:00 - 16:00, 20th October 2010  [click here for presentations and resources from the conference]

Practical approaches to embedding Education for Sustainable Development in to Further Education Teaching

Speakers / Workshops:

• 'Sustainable development in inspection' - Bryan Davies, Head of Sustainable Development OFSTED
• 'Approaches to embedding SD in the curriculum' - Jimmy Brannigan, Director ESD Consulting Ltd
• 'Appreciative Inquiry methods, World Café, and critical questions' - Jo Matthews, Coaching for Responsible Leadership
• 'Leading and learning for a sustainable future: sustainability in sector improvement, leadership and growth' - Conrad Benefield, Sustainability Programme Development Manager, Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)
• 'Agenda Congestion - Linking ESD to other college agendas' - Nigel Rayment, Magnified Learning

Agenda:
In addition to keynote speakers workshops and a ‘question time' style panel were held to give participants a chance to ask questions of some of the most knowledgeable and influential people in the field of Education for Sustainable Development.