Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has introduced its new Sustainable Development Goals Online platform, featuring an online library of over 12,000 articles and chapters – covering some of the world's biggest ongoing challenges – as well as a selection of materials to help lecturers teach sustainability and enhance students' satisfaction with their institutions.
This new venture from Taylor & Francis provides a platform in which to engage higher education students, their tutors, and the researchers in their universities, in learning about and addressing the issues set out in the 17 United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – including poverty, inequality, climate change, pollution, and conflict.
Developed alongside various UN bodies, SDGO provides an interdisciplinary collection of digital content – including Taylor & Francis' books and journals across all disciplines, themed around the SDGs –, as well as teaching and learning materials including presentations, videos, case studies, teaching guides, and lesson plans.
The aim of the new platform is to enable students and tutors to deliver the change they want throughout their careers and lives.
According to a global survey of 1,800 recent university graduates, 96% expect to be involved in sustainability in some way during their careers. 70% of respondents also believe that sustainability should be covered by their university course. Those students believe their university should teach them how to apply the principles of sustainability in their careers, equipping them to be effective advocates for the changes that they know needs to happen through their whole lifetime. And they are putting pressure on universities to meet their expectations.
This pressure means that the momentum for sustainable education is building across the world.
Harnessing the energy and brainpower of the student population behind the SDGs, Taylor & Francis is looking to help build the next generation of leaders who have sustainable development hard-wired into their sensibilities with its launch of SDGO.
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