EAUC 18 INTERVIEW
A new way of LiFE is helping guide universities and colleges to a green economy
Iain Patton is the Chief Executive of the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC). He recently sat down to discuss the launch of their new LiFE programme and how the EAUC is using it to help universities and colleges through the current period of transition.
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Let’s start simple. What is LiFE? That’s probably a good start. LiFE stands for Learning in Future Environments. It’s a brand new
system that launches on 1 November 2011. We’re incredibly excited about it. Basically LiFE is being developed to help universities and colleges manage, measure, improve and promote their social responsibility and sustainability performance. We’re delighted to be working closely with our funding partners HEFCE, HEFCW, the SFC and DELNI on this initiative. In a broader sense, however, LiFE is
really about helping institutions cope with this period of tumultuous transition that’s happening now, and has been developed with direct input from across the sector.
So it’s actually a system institutions can use? Yes, it’s actually a system they can use! As you may know, we started the process of designing a social responsibility system with Universities that Count several years ago. That was our first attempt and while it did many good things, in some areas it fell short of what we needed it to be. We used that as an excellent opportunity to learn what really matters to universities and colleges and we’ve been applying that learning to the development of LiFE. So LiFE is a system that has been
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