Why IASA?
STUDENTS
IASA is an inclusive assessment and goes above and beyond assessing the academic aptitude of students. Therefore, IASA scores complement conventional educational assessment to help identify the hidden leaders for tomorrow’s sustainable world who unfortunately would be missed otherwise.
1. Top- scoring students benefit from a host of prizes, funding and other IASA awards alongside national and international recognition of the accomplishments. Please ask your school or college to contact us for details.
2. IASA scores offer students an edge over others for University applications as well as for future employment. More and more higher education organisations and employers prefer students and employees, respectively, with practical, solution-led aptitude around sustainability issues.
3. IASA scores help students decide how they want to progress for further education, training or professions and answer questions like: Should they develop green skills? what green jobs can they aim for? which degrees can they pursue? what sort of apprenticeship or traineeship can help them create a positive impact on the planet and the people?
4. For some students, IASA opens doors to their creative potential as sustainable entrepreneurs – the beginning of unconventional forerunners with disruptive innovations.
PARENTS
No future profession or enterprise will exist without the principles of environmental, economic and societal sustainability designed into them. Only individuals who have realised their true sustainability aptitude will be able to thrive as successful professionals.
It is not very easy for busy parents to keep track of their children’s’ evolving interests, talents and aptitude in light of the rapidly changing technologies, professions, socio-economic conditions or the geo-political scenarios to name a few factors.
This is where IASA scores come handy! IASA scores can lend parents a helping hand in recognising their children’s interests and aptitude with 360-degree sustainability in perspective so that they can guide their children to a make the right choices; be it a job, further education, training, starting a new enterprise or even joining the third sector to create meaningful changes.
SCHOOLS & COLLEGES
Apart from contributing to the furthering of the United Nations Global Goals and creating a more sustainable world, schools and colleges that participate in IASA benefit as below.
1. IASA-participating schools and colleges will join the global leaders in sustainability literacy to facilitate positive changes created by young people.
2. IASA scores offer schools the opportunity to identify the impact of their climate change and sustainability education on their students’ ability to apply that knowledge meaningfully.
3. Schools also get to identify the students who are natural leaders as far as 360-degree sustainability is concerned, so that their skills and abilities can be further nurtured, independent of their academic performance and standing.
4. The best-performing schools/colleges and their leaderships will be recognised with national and international accolades and media coverage.
5. IASA scores act as key differentiators from competitors, as a badge of honour, for leading organisations who have the foresight to prepare their students for tomorrow’s sustainable world.