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This chapter explores the experiences of a further education (FE) college which started to embrace Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in 2002. Sustainability champions have encouraged both strategic and curriculum developments across the college. Over ten years into this journey, examples of success and challenges are explored, with tips to encourage and pitfalls to avoid. This chapter is the result of a research project which focused on the approaches used to embed ESD into the higher education in further education (HE in FE) curriculum at the College. The views of previous sustainability champions and former leaders of ESD at the College are shared, providing guidance on the way forward for those engaged in leading this agenda in other FE colleges.
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Osborne, P. (2016). Becoming Sustainability Champions: How Embracing Education for Sustainable Development Can Help Organisations to Change. In: Summers, D., Cutting, R. (eds) Education for Sustainable Development in Further Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51911-5_2
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