Education UK
This article focuses on information specific to the United Kingdom. Please see our Education, sustainable community action page for a topic overview.
Resources
- Top tips on sustainability in schools
- Sustainable Learning
- Sustrans information for schools
- Sustainability Exchange, resource for sustainability in UK tertiary education
- Global Dimension, the world in your classroom
- Transition Universities Guide, Jan 2017
Funding
Solar Schools, Project now closed according to website, Sep 2016. Community fund raising scheme for renewable energy projects. Each school has its own webpage where parents, ex-pupils, local businesses, and other supporters can buy squares of a ‘virtual’ solar roof. Once they have raised the total cost of the solar roof, they can erect it. The idea is that the solar roofs will help the schools reduce their carbon footprint, turn a profit from the renewable energy it sells and provide the children with a platform for learning about clean energy. W
Networks
UK Youth Climate Coalition
The UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC) is a non-profit youth organisation in the United Kingdom. The organisation is run entirely by unpaid volunteers, who are all aged 18 to 29.
Formed in 2008, the mission of the organisation is to inspire, empower and mobilise a coalition of UK youth organisations and young people to take positive action on climate change. To achieve their aims and objectives, the organisation provides training to young people on public narration whilst coordinating a series of projects, campaigns and events each year, including youth delegations to the United Nations Climate Negotiations. W
The organisation is supported by a coalition of non-governmental organisations.
- UK Youth Climate Coalition on facebook
Other links
- UK Students Climate Network on facebook
Video
News and comment
2020
💚 Universities should be drivers of local sustainability, Dec 12 [1]
'We deserve to be taught about it': why students want climate crisis classes. [2] Sep 28
Pupils draft their own climate bill as anxiety grows over lack of guidance for schools. [3] Feb 11
2019
New climate emergency network launched to link schools across B&NES [4] Dec 23 ...Bath
England region plans world-first for climate change teaching [5] Jul 30 ...North East England
2017
Schools are going green and here is how, Sep 12 [6]
2016
From garden to plate: how schools benefit from growing their own produce, Mar 15 [7]
Campaigns
- Adult Conversations, campaign for 2021 which will incorporate a set of events with aims including: Put ‘community’ back into adult education.
Climate emergency
- Let’s Go Zero 2030, national campaign demanding government backing for zero carbon schools added 15:09, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Events
2015
June 10
Brake's Giant Walk for schools
brake.org.uk
May 18 - 22
Walk to School Week
Living Streets
March 2 - 20
The Big Pedal,
Cycle campaign for schools
bigpedal.org.uk
February 9 - 15
Go Green Week,
National week of action on climate change in schools, colleges and universities.
People & Planet
See also
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External links
- Students Organising for Sustainability UK, educational charity created by students and staff at NUS in response to the climate emergency and ecological crisis. added 17:45, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Eco-Schools England
- Education Otherwise, information for families whose children are being educated outside school W
- Field Studies Council, educational charity based in the UK W
- Human Scale Education
- Magic Breakfast, charity which provides a healthy breakfast free of charge to 440 schools across the country, making sure over 17,500 children have a nutritious start to their morning in the classroom. [8]
- Open University, distance learning and public research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education. W
- Sustainable Schools Alliance
- Learning through Landscapes, UK charity which promotes children's outdoor activities through improved use of school playgrounds. W
- Think Global, promoting education for a just and sustainable world W