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as curricula, research, campus operations, community outreach, university collaboration, assessment and reporting, trans-disciplinarily, incorporating SD into the
institutional framework, into daily experience and educating educators.
For Vargas et al. (2019) policy frameworks, which exist at international, national
and institutional levels, are important instruments to implement SD. They mentioned
that for an effective SD implementation, a vertical policy support integration is fundamental in the process. In their research, the results suggested that the policy frameworks should include policy issues: collaboration, partnership, education, outreach,
teaching and learning, staff development, curriculum review, research, campus
operations, and SD policy implementation.
3 Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions: The
Experience of Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is a United Kingdom university, with
more than 37.000 of students (Vargas and Heyes 2016), divided into six faculties:
Arts and Humanities; Business and Law; Education; Health, Psychology and Social
Care; and Science and Engineering, twelve research centres and a range of departments, schools and professional support services. Former Manchester Polytechnic
became Manchester University in 1992. MMU’s mission is “We are a great, modern
university, in a great global city, here to make an impact on Manchester, our nation
and beyond, with a driving ambition to discover and disseminate knowledge, and
make higher education accessible and beneficial to all those with the passion and
ability to succeed” (MMU 2019a).
MMU has undertaken a number of initiatives to gain sustainability and green
credentials that have placed it as the second greenest HEI institution in the UK.
The university has institutional priorities in Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD), including the University’s Strategy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessment, the Environmental Sustainability Strategy, professional development workshops (Matthews and Vargas 2018). About the Strategy for Learning and Teaching,
MMU has CELT (Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching), which offers a
number of workshops, and accredited units, and gives support for staff linked with
the ESD university agenda (Matthews and Vargas 2018).
At MMU we can find LiFE—(Living in Future Ecologies), it is a cross-faculty
collaborative research group, which investigates themes for sustainable development
in the city context (Cocchiarella et al. 2018). In addition, there is a ‘Waste to Resource
Innovation Network’ (MMU 2019b) lead by a Science and Engineering Programme
which works through MMU Cross Faculty Network and Steering committee (Reid
2018). The cross-faculty research network works with ‘policy implementation and
use of waste management’, ‘provide educational interventions to improve municipal
recycling rates, best practice across five European countries providing education to
M. F. Cavalcanti-Bandos and A. Paucar-Caceres
as curricula, research, campus operations, community outreach, university collaboration, assessment and reporting, trans-disciplinarily, incorporating SD into the
institutional framework, into daily experience and educating educators.
For Vargas et al. (2019) policy frameworks, which exist at international, national
and institutional levels, are important instruments to implement SD. They mentioned
that for an effective SD implementation, a vertical policy support integration is fundamental in the process. In their research, the results suggested that the policy frameworks should include policy issues: collaboration, partnership, education, outreach,
teaching and learning, staff development, curriculum review, research, campus
operations, and SD policy implementation.
3 Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions: The
Experience of Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is a United Kingdom university, with
more than 37.000 of students (Vargas and Heyes 2016), divided into six faculties:
Arts and Humanities; Business and Law; Education; Health, Psychology and Social
Care; and Science and Engineering, twelve research centres and a range of departments, schools and professional support services. Former Manchester Polytechnic
became Manchester University in 1992. MMU’s mission is “We are a great, modern
university, in a great global city, here to make an impact on Manchester, our nation
and beyond, with a driving ambition to discover and disseminate knowledge, and
make higher education accessible and beneficial to all those with the passion and
ability to succeed” (MMU 2019a).
MMU has undertaken a number of initiatives to gain sustainability and green
credentials that have placed it as the second greenest HEI institution in the UK.
The university has institutional priorities in Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD), including the University’s Strategy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessment, the Environmental Sustainability Strategy, professional development workshops (Matthews and Vargas 2018). About the Strategy for Learning and Teaching,
MMU has CELT (Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching), which offers a
number of workshops, and accredited units, and gives support for staff linked with
the ESD university agenda (Matthews and Vargas 2018).
At MMU we can find LiFE—(Living in Future Ecologies), it is a cross-faculty
collaborative research group, which investigates themes for sustainable development
in the city context (Cocchiarella et al. 2018). In addition, there is a ‘Waste to Resource
Innovation Network’ (MMU 2019b) lead by a Science and Engineering Programme
which works through MMU Cross Faculty Network and Steering committee (Reid
2018). The cross-faculty research network works with ‘policy implementation and
use of waste management’, ‘provide educational interventions to improve municipal
recycling rates, best practice across five European countries providing education to