From the Training Packages at Work website:
In response to the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) Green Skills Agreement, Government Skills Australia (GSA) will finalise its plan for embedding skills for sustainability into training packages by the end of March.
The COAG Green Skills Agreement will deliver skills for sustainability in the Australian training system.
In order to comply with the COAG agreement, GSA is undertaking an investigation of current and future sustainability skills needs in its industry sectors. A range of issues are being investigated to:
- determine if current sustainability units should be included as core units in all or selected qualifications
- identify the need and support for industry specific sustainability skills as core competencies
- establish a qualifications framework for each qualification, contingent on the outcomes of the above
- identify gaps and establish industries support for the development of additional units that provide the skills and knowledge
- identify and establish industry support for current/future sustainability technologies to support the development of skills and knowledge within new and existing units of competency
- review the need for support materials
- consider the accredited courses available in sustainability and the institutions conducting the courses
- identify the need and support for skill sets for environmental sustainability.
Following the development of the plan, GSA hopes to identify and allocate the resources needed to complete the work by the end of 2010.
Click here for more information on the Training Packages at Work website.