Signposting opportunities for further education colleges
Welcome to the Green Skills Roadmap
Delivering greener future opportunities
Further education colleges are key to delivering a greener future for our region, one of social, economic, and environmental justice. Colleges in the West Midlands and Warwickshire are both challenged by the green skills revolution and presented with an opportunity.
A greener future means green jobs, green jobs need green skills, and green skills need colleges to deliver green courses. As the demand for green jobs rises, so does the need for colleges to adapt and innovate their learning and skills offer.
Recognising the imperative, this Green Skills Roadmap has been collaboratively developed by colleges in the region with the support of the UK Government’s Department for Education Local Skills Improvement Fund.
The roadmap is designed as a tool for college leaders and their Boards, curriculum and estates planners, teachers and support staff, employers, funders, partners, learners, and communities, and anyone else interested in further education and green skills.
It signposts colleges to action, institutionally, collaboratively, and in partnership with stakeholders…
It signposts a transformation in college green skills provision across the West Midlands and Warwickshire…
It signposts a better future…
Together, we can do this.
Matthew Shribman, writing for AimHi Earth - 12th April 2023
The only positive “green” future that is workable in the long term, according to the best available science, is a future that builds our human systems to work with and in support of the rest of nature, rather than against it...This means that we urgently need an economy that not only sustains the life and resources around us but regenerates nature too. Clearly this cannot be done with the economy we have, continuing with business as usual. We need a new “green” economy.
