EDUCATION
Sustainability in schools Danny Harrington, founder and Director of ITS Education Asia on the latest key part of the school choice process School selection in Hong Kong has undergone a huge transformation over the last 15 years, as the number of international schools has grown and the range of people considering them has broadened. Before that, it was often a case of which ESF catchment do I fall in? Or, where do my friends’ children go to school? Now we are
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all aware of considering a variety of elements such as school size, class size, curriculum, facilities, location, ethos and so on. I think we should now unquestionably add an element with at least equal importance to these for the 21st century - sustainability. Sustainability is now very much at the forefront of mainstream consciousness.
The terrible outcomes of our unsustainable approaches through (especially) the last 50 years are now at the top of the media stories we consume every day; be they economic hardships, social inequalities, or, of course, environmental impacts. The idea of a sustainable approach to modern and future life has also gained prominence, especially
