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Sustainability & Green Skills: THE ROLE OF TVET IN TRANSITION TO LOW…
Sustainability & Green Skills:
THE ROLE OF TVET IN TRANSITION TO LOW CARBON ECONOMY
VET's Roles
Embed skills for sustainable practice into vocational education and training curriculum.
Incorporate green skills into TVET curriculum as embedded, interdisciplinary and mandatory aspects of learning for
all
students.
New qualifications and competencies developed in VET focused on sustainable and green practices and new occupations in a low-carbon economy.
Formal and informal learning opportunities are provided to support core, compulsory VET within initial or continuing training.
Build green skills into qualification and skills recognition.
Assess people's sustainability or green knowledge, skills and principles (formally and informally).
Include assessable units in mainstream curriculum as well as specialist programs.
Implement transition strategies to re-skill vulnerable workers.
Make training and skills a critical part of transitioning existing workers out of declining industries or into new environmentally sustainable jobs.
Clean workforce capability strategies to specifically identify a role for VET.
Implement sustainability into continuing professional development and in the classroom.
Green skills and sustainability concepts introduced into teacher continuing professional development (CPD).
Share best practice, demonstrating how sustainability and climate change has been incorporated into teaching.
Consider where further steps could be taken to support the teaching of sustainability in relevant subjects.
How can Industry Help Us?
Adopting technologies/innovations that support sustainability and green skills.
Training (upskilling) existing employees in addition to new entrants.
Employing skilled people, with up-to-date sustainability credentials/green skills.
Partnering with training providers to develop and deliver accredited training (or training products) in sustainability/green skills.
Lobbying governments for support for training/upskilling.
Working with governments to develop relevant regulations or licensing practices.
Final Thoughts
VET plays a crucial role in the green skills agenda - but do does industry and governments.
Green skills should be introduced across all curricular (at some level) in addition to an industry and occupational-specific hours.
Informal learning and vendor training can also be important in addition to formal VET training.
Upskilling of VET instructors and teachers to deliver skills for sustainability is essential - as is CPD!
Funding and commitment from stakeholders is crucial.
Challenges and Solution
Challenges include ongoing funding, emerging trends and rate of technology change, availability of skilled VET practitioners/trainers and lack or limited fit-purpose facilities.
Solution include: Understand how these innovations impact the workforce and jobs and the training needed to address them.
Determine appropriate levels of funding (government and industry).
Establish and maintain networks to facilitate effective relationships between industry/VET.
Develop and implement maintenance funding (capital infrastructure funding, delivered through grant process - as an example).
Develop and implement programs to attract industry experts and train to become skilled VET practitioners.
Legislate requirement to include greens/sustainable solutions; this will require industry/VET providers to respond!
Deal with inevitable issues around assessment of competence and what this means in different disciplines.