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As part of the launch for our QAA-funded collaborative project \u2018Students driving curriculum quality for Sustainability\u2019, the UOG team met with the QAA Strategic Student Advisory Committee.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The project purpose is to ensure student views on the depth and quality of sustainability learning are informing future curriculum design and future-fit for driving change in their professional lives.<\/span><\/p>\n Newly recruited Education for Sustainability (EfS) Co-ordinator for the project, PhD student Beatrice Hughes, joined Dr Alex Ryan and Miriam Webb to open sector dialogues with student leaders.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/sustainability.glos.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/UOG-QAA-project-team-1-e1659358198600.jpg” title_text=”UOG QAA project team (1)” _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The meeting offered an opportunity to kickstart the discussions that underpin the co-creation methodology of the project, which seeks to empower students to drive the change in our sector.<\/p>\n This dialogue with the student advisory committee of the UK Quality Assurance Agency enabled the input of students whose mission is to inform the QAA\u2019s strategic work and liaise with networks and agencies, to enhance curriculum and learning experiences across the sector. It includes students from a wide range of institutions and subject specialisms across the UK, including representatives on QAA boards, from Students\u2019 Unions and the National Union of Students\u2019 nominated member.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Having shared the ambitions and plans for the project, the student committee provided positive and perceptive input to the project direction, reinforcing the need for a blueprint to help mainstream Education for Sustainability (EfS) into courses in ways that will avoid \u2018curriculum greenwash\u2019.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n They encouraged the project to take this vital step to closing the critical gap from surface learning that simply transmits scientific knowledge, towards principles for quality sustainability learning, that brings student voices and professionally relevant learning to the fore across university curricula.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Equipped with an insight from this critical student advisory group, the project will be testing a set of principles to rate quality EfS that moves past the educator\u2019s perspective alone and explores the received student learning experience. Students will lead the project dialogues and co-designing outputs that can be used by a wide range of other students to drive quality in EfS across the sector.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n