Abstract
A rapid movement of educational reform is taking place nowadays. Education for sustainable development is becoming increasingly important at all levels of the educational system including higher education due to the scarcity in natural resources. The higher education for sustainable development gained a great importance in developed countries, let alone developing ones as Egypt. In order to cope with global and international changes, after three years since Egypt January 2011 youth revolution, one of the main challenges in Egypt is how to integrate different sustainability ideas and principles within different educational activities. The universities play the core role towards sustainable development which reflects the main aim of this study that aimed to generate a model for its adoption in Egypt through examining a case study of Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development as the first non-profit university in the Middle East declaring sustainable development as its overall guiding principle, as a model of embedding Sustainable Development into Higher Education in Egypt. On the academic level, the importance of this study raised from the fact that there are few studies within the Egyptian context that shed the light on the themes, meanings, opportunities and challenges facing teaching for sustainable development at higher education. On the practical level, this study aimed to shed the light on a good model of a case study of higher education for sustainable development in Egypt, including the challenges and opportunities revealed as well as the areas where recommendations needed to support higher education’s contribution to sustainable development.
RANDA EL BEDAWY. (2014) Embedding Sustainable Development into Higher Education: A Case Study from Egypt, International Review of Management and Business Research, Volume 3, Issue 1.
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