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    Report on Green Skills survey of 1,750 participants published

    December 19, 2018 / No Comments

    The second report for the Green Skills at Vocational Education and Training project published today by Landward Research is a Quantitative analysis of the perception of green skills by VET trainers, VET students, and employers. This is the detailed analysis of over 1,750 questionnaire responses, completed by educators, learners and employers in five countries – UK, Spain, Italy, Romania and Turkey – on their experiences of, and attitudes to, vocational education and training for construction workers and electricians. Written by Ben Lewis, Niloufar Javadi Abhari and Anjumon Ali, the report finds: In terms of the four green skills working areas defined by the project and questionnaire, 68% of educators agreed that green…

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  • News,  publications

    Green Skills report on employers, educators and policy-makers attitudes published

    December 19, 2018 / No Comments

    Two reports produced by Landward Research for the Green Skills at Vocational Education project have been published. The first is a Qualitative analysis of the perception of green skills by VET trainers, VET policy makers and employers. This represents the results of analysis of 73 interviews with VET educators, employers and policy makers in five countries – Turkey, Romania, Italy, Spain and the UK. Written by Ben Lewis, Anjumon Ali and Niloufar Javadi Abhari, this identifes attitudes and trends in vocational eduction and training relating to green skills for construction workers and electricians. The results showed attitudes and awareness varied from country to country – from the Introduction: In the UK, individuals…

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    January 19, 2018

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    March 18, 2019

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    April 20, 2018
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    ANHER

    April 6, 2015 /

    Landward Research Ltd are part of the new ANHER (Innovative format of education and training of the integrated archaeological and natural heritage) project, funded by the European Commission's Erasmus Plus Strategic Partnerships in VET programme. The project is led by the Institute of Prehistory at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. The project’s ultimate objective involves improving skills for green jobs and eventually create green work places for people from archaeological and natural heritage sectors. Understanding the environmental impact of archaeological heritage and significance of natural heritage for regulations and practices in the domain of archaeological heritage is to be mainstreamed into education and vocational training systems. Accordingly, the project…

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    December 19, 2017
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    David Connolly joins Landward Research Ltd

    November 1, 2018
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    New website for Adapting Green Skills

    March 20, 2014 /

    The Adapting Green Skills for Vocational Education project has a new, comprehensively updated website at: http://www.greenskills-europe.com Landward Research Ltd are participating in this project together with six other European organisations. It is supported by the EU and aims to include green skills into the vocational education and training (VET) systems of five partner countries.

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    April 16, 2017
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    Adapting Green Skills to Vocational Education

    December 6, 2013 /

    Landward Research Ltd is working on a project funded by the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme - Leonardo da Vinci Partnerships together with partners from Turkey (HATİCE BAYRAKTAR TEKNİK VE ENDÜSTRİ MESLEK LİSESİ and Köyceğiz Mesleki ve Teknik Eğitim Merkezi Müdürlüğü), Bulgaria (Konstantin Stamov Ltd.), Czech Republic (RIVA, o.s.) and Germany (Bildungsinstitut PSCHERER gGmbH and stratum GmbH) on skills development and advocacy project that aims to ensure that vocational education and training delivers environmentally sustainable skills The future is changing and the skills needed are changing too. For a better world we must be careful on environmental issues. Vocational education must be adapted to meet environmental needs. For a greener industry we need more qualified workers…

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    New Occasional Paper – Richardson et al – What do Archaeologists think of Public Engagement?

    September 4, 2018

    Non-Professional Archaeologists in the US

    July 3, 2018

    Launch of Landward Research occasional papers

    July 30, 2018