Embedding Sustainability in Education

Linda BrownDeputy Vice-Chancellor and Director TAFE

Our multifaceted, embedded whole of business approach to:> Build value for students, community, industry and business

large variety of delivery with strong outcomes – dual sector advantage

strong community and business engagement – real reduction in carbon

> Contribute to policy and its implementation

key contributions to state and national working parties

helping other HEd/VET providers – sharing our expertise

> Lead sustainability skills education

innovative teaching and learning is our differentiator

significant contribution to national curriculum development

investing in our own program development – getting there first

> Achieve strong organisational commitment & performance

University wide Sustainability Strategy – high level accountability

connecting and empowering our people - cultural change

Swinburne’s Approach

Our Strategy

Swinburne will embrace sustainability across all its dimensions. Making sustainability at Swinburne a key driver in all behaviours, future planning and service delivery outcomes.

Strategy Priorities

The six priority areas are:

> Culture and Stewardship

signatory to the international Talloires Declaration

> Teaching and Learning

VC’s Student Award for Sustainable Communities which encourages the sustainability skills and attributes in our graduates

> Research

post-graduate pro-actively identify sustainability foci in concert with other key thematic areas

Strategy Priorities Cont’d

> People Development

Vocational Grad Cert in Education and Training for Sustainability

> Social and Community Sustainability

develop a model for Swinburne’s sustainability educational community

> Business and Environmental Sustainability

annual targets for energy, water, air travel, vehicle travel, recycling, landfill and carbon achieved

Sustainability Scorecard

> 6,892 students enrolled in sustainability / environmental training from 2007 to 2010 YTD

> 12,275 Unit enrolments 2007-2010 YTD

> 11 new courses 2009-2010

> 204 courses and units in sustainability and environment

> 73% staff have personal KPI about sustainability

> 764 staff undertaken sustainability related PD

> 4.6GJ/EFTSL – most efficient University in Melbourne

> 1.1ML water collected across all campuses

Our Credentials

Our Credentials Some fundamentals:

> Outstanding Specialist Centre – funded by Skills Victoria in 2002

> Guideline Competency Standards in Sustainability

> First Australian qualifications in sustainability

> Professional development – internal and external

> Graduate Certificate in Education &Training for Sustainability

> Business Transformer - carbon and $$ savings

> Community sustainability programs – 5 Local government areas

> Bringing research to life

Excellence & Innovation

Multifaceted + Embedded = Whole of Business

Rapid Growth in Available Courses

Achieving Genuine Innovation

Strategies:

> Working with industry & government

> Integration into strategic planning

> Leading curriculum development

> Engaging staff and students

> Sharing with other providers

Investing in Our People > Professional development is

core to our growth in sustainability

> Staff engaged in:

Diploma and Graduate Certificate in of Sustainability

accredited and non-accredited development activities

industry release program funded by the TAFE Development Centre

development of VGD in higher education teaching with embedded VGC

Leading Sustainable Practice in Tertiary Education

Leadership in the sector = Proactive Change

Technology Enhanced Learning

> Graduate Certificate and Diploma of Sustainability delivered nationally via blended learning – combines the use of Web CT, Blackboard, Elluminate and face to face

> Flexible multi-sector learning resources are available anywhere 24/7

> Currency maintained and shared through global communities of practice

New Programs

> Diploma of Carbon Management

> Diploma of Sustainable Landscape Design

> Vocational Graduate Certificate in Education and Training for Sustainability

> The Bachelor of Arts (Sustainability Management)

> Bachelor of Science (Environmental Sustainability)

> New courses in electrical vehicles -

Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Servicing and Maintaining, to be available this year

BEV Retrofitting, awaiting new Australian Design Rules regarding EV conversion

Value Add – Pathways & Dual Qualifications

> Diploma of Nursing + Diploma of Sustainability

> Master of Business Administration + VGC Sustainability

> Bachelor of Engineering + Diploma of Sustainability

> Diploma of Sustainable Environment Management Bachelor of Social Science

Our Work Practices

Connecting + empowering people (bottom up and top down) = cultural change

> Swinburne Sustainability Strategy driving change on all fronts

> Sustainability integrated into our Performance Development and Review processes

> Green Office and Planet Swinburne –changing behaviour through networks

> Major partner in the 1 Million Women campaign, national initiative which aims to inspire practical action on climate change

Committed to the Environment

>Setting strong targets

>Participating in benchmarking (TEFMA)

>Challenging the kilometres travelled

>Monitoring performance18

Leading in the Sector > International Behaviour Change

Conference people attended from education, local government and business

> Voc. Graduate Certificate in Education & Training for Sustainability for VET and HEd

> State wide professional development through the TAFE Development Centre (450)

Leading in the Sector > Guideline Competency Standards in Sustainability with

ISCs

> Capacity building across Australian institutions / Government agencies

> Member of National Quality Council – Skills for Sustainability Working Group

> Providing advice for National VET Sustainability Action Plan

> Representing TDA on National Green Skills Agreement Implementation Plan

> Business Skills Victoria – Go-Green apprenticeships

> WPC Group Green Skills – nationally funded green skills project

Sustainability Linked Research

Research+ Education = Behavioural Change

Research / Skills Nexus> A collaborative joint venture between

Swinburne and Victoria-SuntechAdvanced Solar Facility (VSASF) aims to develop the next generation of solar cells

> Swinburne’s Power Engineering Group is focused on renewable energy systems, power system development and economics

> Collaborative project with CSIRO and other universities

to research and develop lightweight battery-charged

electric cars

Research / Skills Nexus> Researcher Dr Monzur Imteaz of Swinburne’s Centre

for Sustainable Infrastructure developing an internet-based tool to establish domestic rainfall capture capacity

> Advanced Manufacturing Centre linking higher education, research, vocational training and manufacturing sectors

> Boeing and Suntech Power Holdings will be foundation partners in the Centre which will incorporate a demonstrator ‘Factory of the Future’ where students will be trained in the latest manufacturing techniques, transforming engineering education at Swinburne

Thank you

Global Citizenship and Sustainability are key drivers