Qammar Naseha Wafa, Rehman Afridi Zohaib Ur, Qammar Shamaima Wafa
Department of Mathematics, Kaunas University of Technology, LT-51368 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Department of Energy Management and Sustainability, US, Pakistan.
Heliyon. 2023 May 12;9(5):e16230. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16230. eCollection 2023 May.
Educational institutions can incorporate the idea of sustainability at the grass root level for any society. This study is part of an effort to get insight into the campus sustainability in one of the Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. Aim is to investigation university students' and faculty members insight regarding sustainability. Thus, questionnaire-based survey followed by statistical inference was conducted for the potential outcomes. The questionnaire is comprised of 24 questions, 05 of which are on demographics and the remaining 19 are about sustainability. The sustainability related questions focused mostly on the respondents' knowledge, understanding, and interest in sustainability. A handful of the other questions in the questionnaire were tailored to the university input to achieve sustainability. The dataset is manipulated with basic statistical and computational approaches, and the results are analyzed using mean values. The mean values are further classified into flag values of 0 and 1. Flag value 1 indicates a good marker of the received response, while flag value 0 indicates the least amount of information included in responses. The results show that respondents' knowledge, awareness, interest, and engagement in sustainability are significantly sufficient, as we obtained a flag value of 1 for all questions about sustainability. The study's findings, on the other hand, indicated that the institution is lagging in terms of supporting, disseminating, and implementing campus-wide sustainability-related activities. This study is one of the first initiatives to provide a baseline dataset and substantial information to go a step further in achieving the bottom-line target of being and acting sustainable in the HEI.
教育机构可以在任何社会的基层层面融入可持续发展理念。本研究是深入了解巴基斯坦开伯尔-普赫图赫瓦省一所高等教育机构（HEI）校园可持续发展情况的努力的一部分。目的是调查大学生和教职员工对可持续发展的见解。因此，为了得出潜在结果，我们进行了基于问卷的调查并进行了统计推断。问卷由24个问题组成，其中5个是关于人口统计学的，其余19个是关于可持续发展的。与可持续发展相关的问题主要集中在受访者对可持续发展的知识、理解和兴趣上。问卷中的其他一些问题是针对大学为实现可持续发展所做的投入而设计的。我们使用基本的统计和计算方法对数据集进行处理，并使用平均值对结果进行分析。平均值进一步分为标志值0和1。标志值1表示收到的回复是一个好的指标，而标志值0表示回复中包含的信息最少。结果表明，受访者在可持续发展方面的知识、意识、兴趣和参与度明显充足，因为我们对所有关于可持续发展的问题都获得了标志值1。另一方面，研究结果表明，该机构在支持、传播和实施全校园与可持续发展相关的活动方面滞后。本研究是首批提供基线数据集和大量信息的举措之一，以便在实现高等教育机构可持续发展的底线目标方面更进一步。
