Linking employability and sustainability skills through a module on ‘Greening Business’

Abstract

This article describes the development of a module on ‘Greening Business’, which aims to provide practical and skills-based sustainability education to students from any subject discipline and provide students with the knowledge, understanding and skills to drive positive environmental change in their future workplaces. The module proved popular particularly for students on Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES), and business-related courses, providing an alternative and complementary angle to their chosen degree routes. Students perceive modules of this nature to be useful to them in their future careers, potentially giving them an advantage in the job market. Curriculum developments in this area can help develop both sustainability-specific and generic employability skills. It is also an area where the GEES community can play a key role linking the wider employability and sustainability agendas in higher education, in addition it contributes to a more sustainable society through developing the sustainability understanding and skills of its graduates.