Could prison-leavers plug labour shortages? FE Soundbite 693
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Green Skills
What are green skills?
They are the knowledge, abilities, values and attitudes needed to live in, develop and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society.
Green skills can be applied in various industries and professions, individuals should use a combination of technical and soft skills to understand, promote, and implement environmentally responsible practices for their organisation.
Why are they important?
As sustainability is becoming more and more important, it is essential that we unlock the power of green skills to tackle pressing environmental issues like climate change, resource conservation, pollution reduction, and sustainable resource management. These skills are pivotal in fostering a greener, more eco-conscious, and sustainable future.
Learning the right skills
Transferable skills, also known as soft skills, are very important now and in the future as more jobs require green skills. These are the skills that can be applied across a wide range of jobs. Examples here could include strategic thinking, project management, decision-making, leadership, and effective communication.
Green jobs
While COVID-19 has altered careers and caused millions of people to lose their jobs, a shift towards a green economy could create millions of new and different jobs globally by 2030. Now more than ever, good decisions about the education and skills you will need in the future could lead to a sustainable and fulfilling career.
Green jobs include:
- Environmental technicians
- Agricultural specialists
- Wind turbine or solar panel technicians
- Green construction managers
- Nuclear engineers
- Many more like this
Top Hard Green Skills in Demand Nationally
- Sustainability
- Environment Health And Safety
- Auditing
- Supply Chain
- Finance
- Risk Analysis
- Warehousing
- Pharmaceuticals
- Pumps
- Environmental Science
Top Soft Green Skills in Demand Nationally
- Management
- Communications
- Planning
- Customer Service
- Innovation
- Operations
- Leadership
- Sales
- Research
- Infrastructure
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Newcastle College – Leading Green Skills Solutions for the North East
Newcastle College has been leading the way in green skills training for the North East’s energy sector for more than a decade. Here, Principal Scott…
New green horizons in the context of STEM skills for life, learning and work
Across three articles to celebrate British Science Week, Cerian Ayres considers the challenges and opportunities in technical STEM education. So much has changed since British…
Five Things We Learnt From Our Second Green Skills Summit
Last week AELP hosted their second ever Green Skills Summit in Birmingham, bringing together people to discuss how the skills sector can meet the net…
South Thames Colleges Group leading the way in the Green Skills Agenda
On Thursday 26 January we held a Sustainability and Green Conference which provided anopportunity to join employers, key stakeholders, higher education and training providers to break…
We need to change the record on green skills
The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) and Change Agents UK recently undertook a short piece of research for the Universities Partnership in Leicestershire, learning a…
Global murmurings on the future of work
Overlapping summits In the last few weeks, world leaders, and more importantly, their teams, have had overlapping opportunities to confer at a global level –…
What are the implications of the Autumn Statement and COP27? – FE Soundbite Edition 671
Welcome to FE Soundbite edition 671. This is the weekly e-newsletter and e-journal brought to you be FE News ISSN 2732-4095. We know life is…
Reskilling for Net Zero
The UK Government’s commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will bring a major shift in the labour market – with changes to existing…
COP27: an opportunity for us to springboard Green Careers
This time last year, the world was looking to Glasgow as the UK presidency of COP26 wrapped up. Arguably COP26 saw more recognition of the…