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Study Details: 1 year
The PGCert in Conservation and Sustainability Education offers an innovative collaboration between the University of Chester and Chester Zoo. Designed for educators, conservation professionals, and sustainability leaders, the course explores how learning can inspire meaningful environmental action and deepen understanding of our connection with the natural world.
Whether you’re an education professional or leading sustainability and conservation initiatives within a business or organisation, this course supports you to design, deliver, and lead impactful learning for change. You’ll explore how to develop conservation and sustainability education across a range of settings from classrooms and community organisations to zoos, museums, and nature-based programmes and beyond.
A 2:2 honours degree in any subject, and be engaged in, or aspire to work in, teaching and learning or public engagement with conservation and/or sustainability. Applicants with other degree classes and significant experience may be considered through interview and if they can demonstrate, on application, their ability to work at Level 7.
Conservation and Sustainability Education happens in a vast and diverse range of settings, including zoos, national trust, wildlife trust, forestry commission, as well as schools in both formal and informal manners.
This Postgraduate Certificate in Conservation and Sustainability in Education has been designed to meet the training and development needs outlined within the WAZA conservation education strategy (PDF).
Core Modules:
Planning for the Future: An Introduction to Programme Design (20 Credits)
Foundations of Climate, Conservation, and Sustainability Education: Building Inclusive and Impactful Programmes (20 Credits)
Innovative Methods in Conservation and Sustainability Education: Leading the Way (20 Credits)
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