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Sustainability and Green Skills

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 Posted in Article, Resources, Skills, Training | No Comments »

In line with the Government imperative to implement its Green Skills Agreement, IBSA has undertaken an audit of its 11 Training Packages to identify the gaps and areas where sustainability skills may need to be incorporated or new units developed. ...

Green Skills Agreement Implementation Plan

Thursday, May 6th, 2010 Posted in Article, Skills, Training | No Comments »

The Department of Education and Training Queensland is seeking feedback on the draft Green Skills Agreement Implementation Plan. read more online

$1.1 million Toolbox funding focuses on sustainability and trades

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 Posted in Article, Resources, Training | No Comments »

Source: Flex-e news With $1,100,000 of funding and support from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), seven new Flexible Learning Toolboxes (Toolboxes) that support the delivery of nationally endorsed training packages in critical industries will be developed in 2010. Many of the ...

Green Skills Agreement: implementation progress

Sunday, April 18th, 2010 Posted in Innovation, Resources, Skills | No Comments »

An implementation group met for the first time on 24 February 2010 to start work on strategies that will deliver the objectives of the Green Skills Agreement. The Green Skills Agreement was endorsed by the Council of Australian Governments in December ...

Training Packages @ Work News

Sunday, April 11th, 2010 Posted in Innovation, Resources, Skills, Training | 1 Comment »

100th issue prize winners The Training Packages @ Work team are delighted to announce the winners of our 100th issue Toolbox give away. read more online Streamlined training package endorsement The requirement for state and territory ministers to approve all National Quality Council training ...

Sustainability and Green Skills

Monday, March 8th, 2010 Posted in Article, Resources, Training | No Comments »

  In line with the Government imperative to implement its Green Skills Agreement, IBSA has undertaken an audit of its 11 Training Packages to identify the gaps and areas where sustainability skills may need to be incorporated or new units developed. ...

Sustainability Skills

Sunday, January 31st, 2010 Posted in Article, Skills, Training | No Comments »

Industry Skills Councils are playing an important role in addressing sustainability issues within the training sector. In response to the COAG Green Skills Agreement, GSA will have a plan for embedding skills for sustainability into Training Packages by the end ...

E-learning supports a greener future

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Article, Resources | 3 Comments »

24/11/2009 Delivery strategies e-learning environment innovations sustainability vet Learning resources Technologies Assessment Learner groups eStandards Training packages Industries As Australia seeks to build a sustainable economy, the vocational education and training (VET) system is playing a vital role in ensuring that today’s ...

Skills go green by 2010

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Article, Training | No Comments »

DEEWR The Federal Government has announced that all apprenticeships and vocational education training packages will be reviewed to ensure that they include relevant green skills by March next year, and that all courses will be revised to include the new green ...

Skills for Sustainability

Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Resources, Training | No Comments »

IBSA is undertaking a project which aims to scope skill for sustainability across all the IBSA Training. The worldwide community has accepted that climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions is a serious long term threat to the economic ...