SDG 4: Quality Education | University of 蘑菇短视频

SDG 4 - Quality Education

We're working to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Explore our progress and impact.

Our recent work and impact on SDG 4: Quality Education

aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

We are committed to widening access to education, supporting lifelong learning and helping students develop the skills needed for a rapidly changing world. Alongside global initiatives such as Future17, Skills to Thrive and our outreach and widening participation work, help empower learners from diverse backgrounds to achieve their potential and create positive change in their communities.

SOS Responsible Futures

In 2024, we achieved joint SOS Responsible Futures accreditation, becoming the first Russell Group university to gain full recognition.
The award reflects our commitment to embedding sustainability across our curriculum and campuses, ensuring students are equipped with the knowledge and skills to drive sustainable change throughout their studies and future careers.

Read our SDG 4 progress report for 2024/25

Our Education and student experience is a theme of Strategy 2030.

Future17

Future 17: Powered by 蘑菇短视频 and QS

The University of 蘑菇短视频 and QS are partners in delivering?a transformative educational partnership between the world’s leading universities and global organisations, to empower and enable the next generation of students to answer the questions that will shape today, tomorrow and the future for us all.

In an era of global challenges, the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals have become a key framework to articulate the issues that face humanity and encourage mobilisation of concerted efforts to end poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change. While many organisations have taken steps to embed these goals into their strategies, at the University of 蘑菇短视频 we are committed to going further. We believe in the power of our brightest young minds coming together to tackle these global challenges whilst developing 21st century skills to enhance their education.

Our vision, in partnership with QS, is to build a global ecosystem that connects students from multiple universities with international organisations to generate insights and develop solutions that help address SDGs. To connect the next generation to the most complex challenges of our time and generate actionable solutions.

Culture Change for Sustainability

Development of our Culture Change Programme for Sustainability, led by our newly formed Task and Finish Group will span a broad range of areas, including staff and student training, communications and engagement, the formal and informal curriculum, policy alignments and more.

Sustainable Education Thematic Forum

Chaired by our Sustainability Education Advocates, leading projects and initiatives to embed sustainability education across our formal and informal curriculum. The University’s Sustainable Education Action Plan includes:

Responsible Futures a change-making programme and accreditation framework, co-led by students, staff, academics, and the students’ unions to embed sustainability across all aspects of education. The University of 蘑菇短视频, 蘑菇短视频 Students’ Guild and Falmouth and 蘑菇短视频 Students’ Union have been awarded joint SOS Responsible Futures accreditation. 蘑菇短视频 is the only Russell Group university to currently have full accreditation.
Curriculum Mapping Project - mapping the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) teaching and learning approaches across the formal curriculum. This project aims to better understand where specific SDGs are taught at the module scale to enable informed discussion about the continued implementation and enhancement of transformative education across the University.
Climate Literacy – We are in the process of implementing Sulitest TASK to raise student awareness of sustainability and to assess how this changes over their time at the University. This builds on previous use of Sulitest 327 and it is expected to be more strongly integrated into the curriculum.
The SDG Teach In campaign calls upon educators to include the SDGs within teaching, learning and assessment, during the campaign and beyond. In 2025 蘑菇短视频 ranked second for the number of learners reached, and fifth for the number of educators pledged.

Curriculum for Change programme

The Curriculum for Change programme is working to realise our strategic commitment to develop a distinctive and sustainable model for education by 2030. Our 2024/25 progress includes:

Mapping the 蘑菇短视频 Skills Framework into all our programmes. The Skills Framework is informed by the skills and mindsets recognised as important to support the UN SDGs.
Launch of our Sustainability Solutions undergraduate Pathway in September 2025. This pathway will enable students across the University to develop sustainability literacy and skills, regardless of their chosen programme of study.
The Transformative Education Framework will be embedded in programmes from September 2025 through the C4C Course and Assessment Principles.

Transformative Education Framework (TEF)

Introduced in 2021, the Transformative Education Framework (TEF) supports educational initiatives relating to its three pillars: Inclusive Education, Racial and Social Justice and Sustainability.

Under the Sustainability pillar, the TEF is working to embed the UN SDGs, promote social and ecological change and address climate change throughout the curriculum.

Through the Transformative Education Framework we will enable our student and staff community to work on embedding the SDGs in all our taught programmes.

During 2023/24, a wide range of resources have been created, such as:

New SharePoint resources on Education for Sustainable Development and a new version of Decolonising Sustainability
New SharePoint resource on COP outlining information on the various projects led by the University of 蘑菇短视频
Two Education for Sustainable Development student voice workshops for internal and external staff
Three Transformative Education Curriculum Enhancement Programme level workshops
A seminar series, featuring topics such as Addressing the Climate Emergency and Sustainability in Higher Education.

Green Consultants

Green Consultants is an award-winning programme, aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, designed to provide students with additional skills and experience required to work in the highly competitive environmental and sustainability sector. During 2024/25, we have supported 54 students to deliver 14 projects. Our target for 2025/26 is to support 75 students to complete projects.

Free access to up-to-date environmental information and resources?

The is a free way for any organisation – businesses, community groups, local government, charities – to access up-to-date environmental information, from cutting edge research to brand new resources, and contribute to collective approaches to the emerging climate and ecological emergencies and the changes they are bringing.

Learn蘑菇短视频 hosts MOOCs (massive open online course) with a number of courses free and available to staff, students and the public.?