Education for sustainable development in Silesian universities and academia

The article presents the results of studies concerning the evaluation of the training curricula for students in the scope of sustainable development. The subject of evaluation included advanced training curricula realised by Silesian private universities of which educate a very high number of students from the Upper Silesia. The curricula were analysed taking into account the degree in which they address the evelopment of a holistic knowledge about economic growth, quality of life and environmental protection for the needs of sustainable development implementation practice. Moreover, the article includes examples of syllabuses of subjects addressing the issue of sustainable development lectured at the faculties of management, environmental engineering and the European studies of the Silesian School of Management in Katowice