Students canvassed around the world have shown clearly that they want to learn more about sustainability and see their institutions taking action too.
The survey began in 2010-11 when the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom (NUS-UK) began asking students studying in the UK about their experiences of and expectations for education for sustainable development at their universities. The research, carried out over 8 years, consistently found that students expect their universities to be taking action for sustainable development, both in terms of their own impacts but also in terms of the teaching provided to students.
After those findings, the NUS decided to take the survey a step further to find out if students at universities around the world felt the same. During the spring of 2018, partnerships were formed with a number of international organizations to run an online survey, with 3247 students from around the world responding.
The research found:
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