A talk on Education for Sustainable Development was conducted by its coordinator, Puan Mazlina Sabtu on 8 January 2024 at the Melaka campus. More than 150 students attended the event alongside Dr Susan Chin and Mr. Vincent Chan, academic staff from the Faculty of Business (FOB). The speaker explained that using participatory teaching and learning methods, youths are encouraged to imagine an ecologically excellent future. The world needs better education to manage the growing concerns over a healthy planet.
Young people are the leaders, voters, decision-makers, and consumers who will inherit the current generation’s human-made system and the world. Therefore, education should focus beyond providing basic skills and knowledge. It should encourage people to think, innovate, and propel actions for the world and humanity.
WWF-Malaysia’s education programme aims to provide these skills, and it has gone through many improvements since it started back in 1977. It has evolved from building awareness to transforming individuals into sustainability champions. The programme sets its framework based on UNESCO’s education for sustainable development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. They believed that education must prepare students and learners of all ages to find common and differentiated solutions for the challenges of today and the future.
The scope of WWF’s work has also gone beyond the formal education realm to include sustainable cities and communities with a range of themes including biodiversity, poverty reduction, and responsible consumption and production. Their strategies aim to address environmental issues through active support for the formal education system, educational policy, and engagement with society.
