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Skills for Sustainability an LSC perspective 1
April 2008 Presented to the EAUC Annual
Conference By Rob Wye
Welcome
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Leitch commitment
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• Sustainable development.is the defining
  challenge of the 21st century. If the nation is
  to play its full part in challenging global
  poverty and combating environmental problems like
  climate change, it is imperative that everyone in
  this country develops the skills of sustainable
  living and working. That means placing
  sustainable development at the heart of skills
  provision, ensuring it is a fundamental goal of
  our economic and social progress.
• World Class Skills Implementing the Leitch
  Review of Skills in England, Page 20

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Opportunities and Challenges
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Opportunities

• Further education can contribute to a more
  sustainable future by
• Providing learners with specialist skills
• Giving all learners literacy in sustainability
• Building the capacity of our leaders and
  champions
• Building the capacity of our staff
• Changing leading as organisations
• Better managing our buildings estates
• Being better community partners
• Keeping skills for sustainability at the top of
  the agenda

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Challenges for the FE system

• Machinery of Government changes
• Time and resources many other priorities
• What do employers need?
• Building the capacity of FE staff
• Harnessing and building learner enthusiasm
• Working collaboratively lining up the supply
  chain behind sustainable development
• Measuring progress
• What will the FE system look like as an exemplar?
• What are skills for sustainability?

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Challenges for theLSC

• Changing the culture of a multi-sited
  organisation
• Machinery of Government changes
• Time and resources - many other priorities
• Changing established internal policies
• Working collaboratively with external partners
• Getting more involved regionally
• Embedding sustainable development in outward
  facing policy
• What will an organisation like the LSC look like
  as an exemplar?

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What are we doing about it?
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Our actions looking inward as the LSC

• On-line survey of LSC staff summer 2007
• Strategy for communicating and embedding
• sustainable development in everyday working
• Framework of targets for the LSC as an
  organisation
• Reviewing options for staff capacity building
• Take forward through Machinery of Government
  changes see them as an opportunity

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Our actions looking outwards as an LSC

• Investment in the FE estate environment
• Buildings
• Energy Efficiency Grants
• E-learning
• Launched SORTED with EAUC
• Working with CEL to establish the Partners Forum

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Our Plans

• Prioritise and build our impact SD Action Plan,
  Sustainable Capital Action Plan.
• Work with EAUC to build SORTED
• Work with CEL to establish the Partners Forum as
  a way of achieving a joined-up approach
• Implement our strategy to embed sustainable
  development in everyday work at the LSC
• Invest in capacity building for LSC staff
• Start to measure our progress as an organisation
  against targets
• Build sustainable development into the
  organisations that succeed the LSC

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Skills for Sustainability Key Points
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Whats needed?

• Commitment to change as organisations
• Actions not words
• More anticipation and forward-thinking
• Better understanding of employers needs
• Everyday sustainability skills
• Be joinedup around skills for sustainability
• Promotion of sustainable capital development
• Think long-term.
• We need to contribute individually as providers,
  agencies, representative bodies etc. But we must
  also work together as an FE system.

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Sustainable Capital Development
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What are we doing?

• Excellent BREEAM rating will be required for most
  new capital projects
• Zero carbon colleges target for 2016
• Commissioned major report from Arup on how to
  achieve zero carbon due Spring 2008
• Positive measures to promote sustainable building
  sustainable development action plan

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LSC Sustainable Development Action PlanKey
Points

• Salix Energy Efficiency Scheme - 22 million of
  energy and carbon saving projects
• New sustainable development capital grants for
  2008-09
• Increasing minimum BREEAM requirement for very
  good (aspiring to excellent) to excellent
• Working with RIBA to promote sustainability in
  new developments

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Contacts
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• SORTED www.eauc.org.uk/sorted
• LSC website www.lsc.gov.uk
• Contact - mary.kelly_at_lsc.gov.uk
• Contact Philip.head_at_lsc.gov.uk