Affiliation:
1. University of the West of England, UK
Abstract
The Higher Education Institutions' (HEIs) around the world have to pay the main role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals for that HEIs need to be sustainable first. This article aims to describe a sustainability framework and suggest the process to use the proposed framework. A qualitative research method consists of a systematic review, semi-structured interviews and email interviews was adopted to achieve the aims and objectives of this research. The data was collected from 39 papers extracted from four main databases. This was further subjected to semi-structured interviews held with a total of 11 sustainability experts. A framework for sustainability in HEIs consisting of three main components related to the environment, Social responsibility and teaching and research is finally developed and validated through email interviews held with 19 heads of different HEIs around the world. Each of the main sustainability components is divided into sub-factors. Longitudinal studies are recommended to evaluate the impact of the proposed framework on HEIs sustainability.
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Development,Ecology,Environmental Engineering