ISEP Certificate in Sustainability and Environmental Management Reviews

The slides and the handouts don't always flow together. Jim was excellent, probably the best of the 3 trainers we have had. I wish we had had him from day 1 week 1 to be honest. The week went well. He was the best at letting conversation go, he gave us good breaks to decompress and was great at adding extra stuff and websites to back up the discussion.

Course detail was dated.

Mike was very knowledgeable. I felt a little sorry for him, he was rushing through the legal stuff on Wednesday and Thursday specifically - It felt there wasn't enough time to go through the legislation in any detail. Mike sort of shut down discussion, but I think he did it to get through all the stuff he needed to talk about. It felt like we needed to know about some of the legislation in advance to do some of the breakout room exercises.

Excellent and engaging tutor. Some of the course content is quite out of date.

The tutor did an amazing job delivering the content, keeping it interactive and giving up to date examples. One of the issues I have had with all 3 modules it that a lot of the content was out of date, so it was good to have other examples from the tutor.

I think that the content needs looking at bit as it can sometimes be too much information dumping in one block so needs to be a bit more broken up with a group activity. Week three has been the best delivery as the tutor has set the pace and given proper 10 minute breaks every hour. He was able to manage a lively group and still keep us on track and that was becase he was engaging and set the right tone from the beginning. He was also very supportive. Can it be fed back to IEMA that a LOT of the material in the manuals is out of date, not just by years but sometimes by decades. Course material should be reviewed and updated annually to keep it relevant. Historical case studies can still be relevant of course many years later but there is no excuse for things like the Living planet index to be so out of date when it is published every 2 years. Thats just one example of many. The homework books were never referenced in week 1 & 2 and were pretty useless in week 3 as the sustainability reports we were directed to use were the most up to date ones that companies issued which we accessed from the web. It is correct to refer to the most up to date policies so this rendered the homework and reading book a waste of time and also a BIG waste of paper. Again not sustainable. Suggestion to IEMA that the manual stays a hard copy but reading materials are sent electronically via up to date links to access the latest documents and websites. Much more environmentally friendly.