Sustainable development is highly dependent on the implementation of environmental education programs, which has as its ultimate goal to produce environmentally literate citizens that undertake environmentally friendly actions. Efforts on environmental education along past years are now perceived on the increase of citizens awareness on European countries and, particularly, in Portugal. However...

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are often the size of small municipalities. Worldwide, the higher education (HE) sector has expanded phenomenally; for example, since the 1960s, the United Kingdom (UK) HE system has expanded sixfold to >2.4 million students. As a consequence, the overall production of waste at HEIs throughout the world is very large and presents significant challenges as th...

Unmet needs in the area of enterprise applications have led to a new type of system development. Community source is collaborative open source development among multiple institutional partners, typically to achieve mutually desired outcomes. By examining a real world community source project – Kuali, this study addresses the challenges community source faces for sustaining in a large and compli...

This paper focuses on the outcome of higher education translated into the creation of both physical and social capital. Optimally apportioned quality and quantity of each of the two broad forms of capital ensures sustainable development of a society. The institutions of higher learning, specifically in the modern world, are universally considered to be the service industries responsible for con...

The purpose of this phenomenographic study is to examine students’ knowledge progression in a three-year Bachelor program in Business Administration. Theoretical sampling was used to select nine students from a group of 200 university students admitted to the program. The students were interviewed on three occasions: Year 1, after their Management Accounting course; Year 2, after their Financia...

This study aims to identify the role of higher education quality assurance in achieving sustainable development goals. To support this aim, following objectives were formulated: discuss and summarize best practices QA agencies promoting SDGs, how Ukrainian universities consider SDGs their policies, develop recommendations for internal, external systems regarding SDG achievement. qualitative is ...

The primary goal of our work is to address the issues concerning application sustainability concepts in Higher Education Campus Faculty Architecture at Universidade de Lisboa. Sustainable actions and attitudes are part sustainable principles Development Goals adopted 2030 Agenda by all member states United Nations. This exploratory research based on a review international literature specialized...