BEYOND “green-collar” jobs, like retrofitting a home to conserve energy or helping build a wind farm, an energy-conscious economy will need a new generation of environmentally smart managers, and that’s where community colleges are stepping up with new courses and degree programs.
Former President Bill Clinton today praised a pioneering career-training program for Philadelphia high school students, saying it was the kind of program that improves students’ lives and the economy.
WYCKOFF The Northern New Jersey chapter of the American Society of Training and Development will hold a seminar Thursday on “Career Possibilities in a Green Economy.”
By Cheow Xin Yi email@corporateobserver.com.sg SINGAPORE (April 27, 2010) - An engineer by training, few would have given Mr Ricky Tan any chance of making a successful career out of education. And after an unsuccessful nine-year foray into running childcare centres here, fewer would have backed his bid to set up schools in a faraway, backward economy where most …
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. Seven years ago, Mary Hickey was in a rut. Her professional life was going nowhere and she was living a life that didnt hold a future she liked. As a high-tech consultant for companies such as Cisco, she was living from one contract job to another, and knew future work resided at companies run by people 10 years younger than her.
