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ILO Releases Report on Skills for Green Jobs

Posted October 26, 2011 - 13:38

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has released a publication, titled "Skills for Green Jobs: A Global View," examining the experiences of 21 developed and developing countries in providing training to meet the new demands of a
greener economy. The report highlights both the importance of skills development to "unlocking the employment potential of green growth," and the reality of current skills shortages, which are becoming an obstacle in
realizing this potential.

Ripples - Official Newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network - October 2011

Posted October 21, 2011 - 10:13

Our newsletter attached with our compliments.

Jim

Jim Saleeba
Honorary CEO
Australian Learning Communities Network Inc
PO Box 664 Albury 2640

Phone: 02 6021 5690; Fax 02 6021 0616

Email: [email protected]

Supporting the 2012 National Year of Reading

National Jobs Australia Conference - Brisbane, October 2011

Posted October 21, 2011 - 03:05

Business leader warns jobs services providers to prepare for market contraction, calls on the Government to provide more funding to address the problems of long term unemployed and has called into question the place of for profit providers in the Job Services Australia sector .

World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability

Posted October 21, 2011 - 00:17

Flagship Report 2011

In this report, the WBGU explains the reasons for the desperate need for a post-fossil economic strategy, yet it also concludes that the transition to sustainability is achievable, and presents ten concrete packages of measures to accelerate the imperative restructuring. If the transformation really is to succeed, we have to enter into a social contract for innovation, in the form of a new kind of discourse between governments and citizens, both within and beyond the boundaries of the nation state.