For the second day today, I get to enjoy the help of the amazing students visiting us at Riverside for Skills for Tomorrow! Here are some of the highlights of the day that they are eager to share with everyone! Hi ! We are from CWLC and our names are Teegan, Caitlin and Ellie. Today we are doing three… Read more →
Category: Student Blog
Skills for Tomorrow: The Boys are back!
Third and final students blog of the day from four young men from St. Marys. Chatty as ever they told me they learnt a lot today, however below their experiences and opinions are stated! It’s much more exciting hearing their day from their own point of view! Piers, Aaron, Henry and Collumbus collaborativley crafted: We are three students from St… Read more →
Skills For Tomorrow: Thursday Round up
The Skills For Tomorrow event kicked off in style earlier today, as students from Birmingham, Herefordshire and Worcestershire schools were given the chance to learn about issues of sustainability in businesses, the ‘green’ economy and careers. The event took place at the Riverside campus of the University of Worcester and saw dozens of children aged between 11 and 14 take part in… Read more →
Skills for Tomorrow: St. Bede’s Conquer Worcester!
Skills for Tomorrow: St. Bede’s Conquer Worcester! Second blog of the day at Skills for Tomorrow from the helpful students at St. Beads school. They were keen to help me with writing their own blog on here as they too have learnt so much from workshops they have taken part in. This group bubbly as ever, talked in detail about their day so far!… Read more →
Skills for Tomorrow: The world of tomorrow!
Today Skills for Tomorrow is at Worcester University, an event aimed at school aged children, about everything sustainable! I have spoken to many students from different schools who are enthusiastic, energetic, and passionate about the enviroment, even at such a young age, How wonderful! I have spoken to three Students and they were keen to help me with my blog,… Read more →
Now lets have the children’s view of Skills for Tomorrow! Day One #SfT
As the children visiting us for Skills for Tomorrow #SfT drifted around the exhibition hall, I managed to get some of them to help me do this blog. Below are the first attempts of my assistants at blogging. I asked them to tell me about the day that they have had so far. And in turn, I helped them publish… Read more →
Skills for Tomorrow #SfT
An amazing opportunity for the children to learn about sustainability, what it is and how important it is! #SfT Focusing on the future- this is Skills for Tomorrow! A great variety of organisations joined us today, ranging from businesses to charities, to University of Worcester staff. Our goal- to involve school students into sustainability. Many children from different schools came… Read more →
5 memes of animals that need protecting
In the morning of the Student Sustainability Summit, I attended a workshop on Nature Loss and the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) came in and gave us an overview on their NGO with an insight into which animals need protecting. Gathering information from the workshop and their website, I will showcase some memes of animals and give a brief description of… Read more →
Are We Giving Students Enough Control At Our Universities?
With a record number of students wanting to see sustainable methods promoted in their studies (as well as getting a well-rounded education), are universities following through with the wants and needs of the people they teach? In the age of sky-high tuition fees, there’s a worry about if institutions are becoming solely involved with getting you a job at the… Read more →
Fossil Fuel: Divest Uni’s £5.2billion
£5.2 billion. That’s a huge amount of money, no matter how you look at it this. Unfortunately, this astronomic figure is the amount that British universities puts into the fossil fuel industry. This, however, this attitude is changing for the better. There’s an increasing movement to take this huge investment out of this unsustainable industry, a practice that is known… Read more →
Student Sustainability Conference 2015: My Experience
The issue of sustainability is perhaps the biggest issue that we face as a species going into the future, so I was amazed to find out that the Student Sustainability Conference, which took place at Leeds University on 23rd March, was the first of its kind. Me and my fellow publishing assistants at Susthingsout travelled up to the event… Read more →
Population: A Tale of Sex and Money
Would you believe there were 2.2 billion people living on the planet in 1946. That’s a lot, now… what would you say about that being increased to 3.6 billion in 1972? How about the 7.2 billion today? How does that impact our planet? This workshop argued how the very fast rate of population will impact our economy and environment and… Read more →
COP21- afternoon workshop
COP is a global summit aiming to resolve the issues of global warming. With recent reports becoming more and more concerning this is crucial for absolutely every person on the planet. The session focuses on the COP21 which will be held in December in Paris 2015. We started with a quite lengthy presentation of what COP is and what the… Read more →
Morning workshop- Circular Economy
I was completely right to be excited about this workshop. It lived up to my expectations. We were packed into a room but Professor Peter Hopkinson gave fascinating and easy to understand lecture on the circular economy telling us it’s: An economy that is restorative by intent. Like myself most of us were completely new to the concept. We were… Read more →
Behaviour Change, reach out!
You are most likley thinking that you are one person in the world, therefore why should YOU change your behaviour to be sustainable in actions, as “they won’t make a difference”. However, action of individuals produce over 40% of carbon emissions. Knowing this fact, would you then change your behaviour to be more sustainable? Dr Neil Jennings the student switch off… Read more →
Start of the Sustainability summit!
Monday morning in the University of Leeds Students Union building. A room packed with students and delegates from all around the country. This is the atmosphere in which the Sustainability Summit is starting. #sss15 Everyone was greeted by Piers Telemacque, Vice-president: Society and Citizenship, NUS who thanked the University of Leeds for hosting the summit and emphasised some of the… Read more →
And the Student Sustainability Summit 2015 starts… Here I go!
Here I am at the University of Leeds Student Union thanks to susthingsout, People & Planet, NUS and EAUC. Students from universities all over the country have gathered together uniting as one with one common aim. That aim is to build up a wider sustainability and environmental network, with hope that one day we will be the voice of the… Read more →
Sustainability Summit- Circular Economy
Just a few days from now me and the other publishing assistants will be going to Leeds Students’ Union for the first ever Sustainability Summit organised by the National Union of Students. It will be an amazing opportunity for us to catch up with fellow students on the ways in which their Universities are becoming more sustainable and we will attend… Read more →
Real Junk Food… Student Sustainability Summit
The student Sustainability Summit on the 23rd of March is fast approaching… and the Susthingsout team will be attending the event at Leeds University, which is run by the EAUC, National Union of Students (NUS) and People & Planet this sell out conference will inform and motivate students to go back to their institutions and Unions with the knowledge and motivation to put…… Read more →
Go Green Week – Repair Cafe
As part of the final day of University of Worcester’s Go Green Week events, which focused on promoting sustainable initiatives to students, Friday saw the volunteers from Malvern Hills Repair Café take over the SU in the afternoon. The theme of the final day revolved around recycling and the re-use of household good and , along with the Igloo build… Read more →