A conservation course built for the future
We’ve joined forces with The University of Chester to launch a first-of-its-kind course to help save the planet!
Designed and delivered by experts at the zoo and The University of Chester, this course at it's inception offered a first opportunity, anywhere in the world for education professionals to gain a recognised qualification in the field of conservation and sustainability education.
Now well established, the Conservation and Sustainability Education PGCert aims to provide educators with the highly sought-after knowledge and skills needed to help learners maximise the impact they can have in carving out a better future for the planet.
Education is vital to saving our planet. It has a crucial role to play if we’re to resolve the urgent crises we’re currently facing in the form of climate change and global biodiversity loss
Liz Webb, Conservation Training Academy Manager
This course, the first of its kind ever to launch in the UK, and indeed the first education course to be developed by a zoo and a university globally, puts sustainability and conservation at the forefront of learning.
It is designed to furnish people engaged in education or conservation with advanced skills that will allow them to support and empower others to engage with urgent environmental challenges.
It is suitable for professionals and volunteers at any stage of their career, furnishing practitioners with the knowledge and methods need to inspire others and embed sustainability into daily practice, whether they are teaching at a school, working with community groups, or within a large organisation.
Applicants come from a wide range of backgrounds, and the course itself is shaped to be accessible to students from various academic disciplines and professional experiences - not just conservation science.
The course draws on the expertise from Chester Zoo and the University of Chester, both institutions with a track record for outstanding innovation within education.
We need to stop looking to the past to solve the problems of the future and radically rethink how we’re educating everyone if we’re to combat the climate and conservation crises.
Uná Meehan, The University of Chester’s Deputy Director of Partnerships
