Sustainability requires revamped HE curriculum - UN forum
UNESCO officials and higher education leaders met at the HESI 2026 Global Forum to discuss the urgent need to revamp university curricula to address global sustainability challenges. The forum emphasized the role of universities in navigating technological shifts, climate change, and social inequality.
Why it matters
As higher education institutions face increasing pressure to solve global crises, this forum sets the agenda for how universities must adapt their research and teaching models.
Sustainability requires revamped HE curriculum – UN forum
Borhene Chakroun, interim director of UNESCO’s Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems. Image: UNESCO
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Heads nodded in agreement when Borhene Chakroun, interim director of UNESCO’s Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems, said: “Higher education is at an inflection point.”
In his opening remarks to the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) 2026 Global Forum, he warned that expectations of higher education “have never been greater”.
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