Green apprenticeships celebrated in honour of the Coronation
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
Six green apprenticeships have been hand-picked by industry experts to mark the Coronation in recognition of their sustainability credentials, the Department for Education has announced today (4 May 2023).
In honour of His Majesty The King’s Coronation, the apprenticeships have been selected for their contribution to creating a low carbon economy by ensuring the country’s workforce is equipped with the skills needed to support the transition to net zero.
The official Coronation emblem will be used by employers and Government to promote the six apprenticeships, which include Low Carbon Heating Technician, Sustainability Business Specialist and Countryside Worker. The apprenticeships are the gold-standard for green skills training, encouraging more people to take up the opportunity to gain the skills to build an exciting career in the green industry while meeting the skills needs of employers and boosting economic growth, one of the Prime Minister’s 5 priorities.
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said:
As we work towards our net zero goals, it has never been more important to prioritise green skills and protect our natural environment. In recognition of the critical role education and skills play in responding to climate change, these green apprenticeships have been selected in honour of His Majesty The King’s Coronation.
These gold-standard, sustainable apprenticeships offer people the chance to embark on exciting new careers in industries from forestry to construction, and contribute to creating a more sustainable economy.
The six apprenticeships are:
- Countryside Worker (level 2)
- Forest Craftsperson (level 3)
- Low Carbon Heating Technician (level 3)
- Installation Electrician and Maintenance Electrician (level 3)
- Sustainability Business Specialist (level 7)
- Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practitioner (level 4)
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/green-apprenticeships-celebrated-in-honour-of-the-coronation
I’m sure Sustainability Specialists, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practitioners and Forest Craftspersons are just what the UK economy needs!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Judging by the decline in the second hand value of battery cars maybe second hand car salesman should be added to the list of apprenticeships ?
When the ban on the sale of new diesel and petrol hits, we are going to need a large number of car mechanics able to work on ageing vehicles
Of course, the flip side of having wonderful new green apprentices is soon, if What Ever For get their way and Britain gets rid of ICE etc, there will be a whole load of very skilled ex-apprentices out of work. And at what cost? Argh!
But we need skilled green countryside workers to clean the panels in solar farms. The apprenticeship probably lasts for years before becoming a qualified and skilled solar panel cleaner (perhaps it also includes the skills needed to clean wind turbine blades).
Smile
And top up with oil the notoriously leaky wind turbine gearboxes
Reminds me of the need for telephone sanitisers- look what happened to them.
They left off “Stone shelter construction,” and other neolithic skills.
RE: ‘Countryside Worker’
How much training do you need to operate a hoe?
This all sounds like training for the Reich Labor Service.
You probably need a degree for those skills.
Wattle & daubing anyone?
“How much training do you need to operate a hoe?”
It’s called pimping !!
😉
The term in English is ‘WHORE’ . U S language maybe ?
Correct;
(two great nations divided by a common language)
“How much training do you need to operate a hoe?” Here in the UK we offer university degrees in how to shoe a horse. No I am not joking, people really pay £9,000 in tuition fees per annum for 3 years to be a glorified blacksmith.
https://www.myerscough.ac.uk/courses/farriery/
Our historic township
Unique, authentic, thought-provoking
Step back in time and discover Scotland’s rural history at Auchindrain, the most complete and well-preserved example of a Scottish Highland farm township. Vividly imagine life in the old Highlands as you walk through the settlement and see how ordinary people lived and worked. Step into the restored longhouses, see the objects of everyday life and learn about the past inhabitants. Explore the byres, stables and fields to understand how groups of families worked the land in common. Uncover a fascinating, long-vanished Scottish way of life deep in the hills of Argyll.
Auchindrain is six miles south of Inveraray, just 90 minutes from Glasgow and 45 minutes from Oban.
https://www.auchindrain.org.uk/
Perhaps a glimpse of the future as well as the past
Translation:
Countryside Worker (level 2) = Farmer
Forest Craftsperson (level 3) = Forester
Low Carbon Heating Technician (level 3) = unemployed
Installation Electrician and Maintenance Electrician (level 3) = Electrician
Sustainability Business Specialist (level 7) = Useless BS artist
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practitioner (level 4) = Director level Useless BS artist
Every company with >25 employees will be required to have a Sustainability Business Specialist.
Every company with >50 employees must have a Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practitioner.
Think resident commissar. With a pistol.
+1 Not only will these be the first to be without jobs when/if the Marxists complete their takeover or the CC meme collapses they will be vilified to no end.
If that happens the role will be lumped in with several other job titles created by government regulations, H&S, Data Protection, Energy Efficiency and the rest.
We do need ‘forest craftspersons’ as these are as pointed out above actually forestry workers. We need to train the next generation of foresters to replace those retiring from the industry. I have been at a few long service award presentations where they went to most of the estate staff showing a need for bringing on the next generation to manage our forests.
As for people practising forest crafts, we could use some of them too for using the harvest from the forests. Hurdle making, charcoal burning, fencing etc.
“We need to train the next generation of foresters to replace those retiring from the industry.”
We? Kemo sabe?
There is no collective responsibility. Forest property owners can pay for training.
EV repair and scrap specialist completely overlooked again.
What about broken solar panel and wind turbine blade removal specialists? Arriving in EVs to take them away somewhere. Landfills?
“I’m sure Sustainability Specialists, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practitioners and Forest Craftspersons are just what the UK economy needs!”
Far more important than growth, productivity, specialist steel manufacturing…… or anything worthwhile.
Of course before climate data scientists, the original bodgers were forest craft persons!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodging
It must disappoint many that there are no ‘Solar-panel efficiency-optimising technician’ apprenticeships.
Even more non-jobs, but I guess lots of subsidies to the companies that take part in this madness
“…gold-standard…apprenticeships”
I would bet hard money that this Keegan joke of a woman has not the faintest idea what ‘the gold standard’ was – it is short for ‘the gold standard system’ – and that, in any case, this international arrangement collapsed sixty years ago.
It was bad enough when memory had already failed in most semi-educated people and the noun phrase was contracted into an adjective, – ‘gold-standard’ -and applied promiscuously as in sentences like, ‘The gold-standard test for liver failure is…’
Does she really think all apprenticeships from now on will start with her ones as templates?
In fact, she simply seems to think that gold-standard means ‘world- class.’ The latter, bragging, phrase (as in ‘Our NHS is world-class!’) seems to have vanished from the lexicon. Something equally silly had to take its place, I suppose.
What a load of codswallop- I hope our new King follows our late Queen’s advice not to be constantly passing an opinion on everything. Our Queen was much loved by everyone but the King could soon be negatively affected if he, who probably has a bigger carbon footprint than any individual in the country, starts using his position to constantly bombard us with his views on saving the planet.
I wondered about that.
‘Six green apprenticeships have been hand-picked by industry experts to mark the Coronation’
Is everything in England going to be linked to the coronation for awhile? Can Charles copyright it to get money off all mentions?
No. Coronation over. back to reality and despair as usual.
“protect our natural environment”
The natural environment needs protecting from environmentalists.
It does round my way! we have people introducing Bison around here, apparently they eat trees, dust bathe and do other things that don’t sound compatable with kent.In addition the public have to be kept away from them.I think Bison were last in kent when we could walk over to France. I thought we needed more trees and lest dustbowl.Im waiting for wolves to be reintroduced. they will mix well with folks enjoying the countryside.
Yep. Wolves could support my slogan.
“Save the Planet _ Eat the Greens!”
So we do with highly skilled manufacturing jobs for these Green jobs. Literally impoverishment. Jobs with lots of value being substituted for jobs with no or negative values.
I’m a forest craftsperson and I’m okay,
I sleep all night and work all day….
Me too,
Mainly with a big chainsaw. got to keep warm some how!
Government announces today more £millions to help Industry achieve Net Zero. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/factories-receive-government-support-to-grow-the-economy-cut-emissions-and-reduce-energy-costs?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=3c108930-c31d-44b8-9db1-03663769d902&utm_content=daily
Wot bout Unicorn Pee refiner and Fairy Dust scatterer?
What about Unicorn P refiner and Fairy Dust, quality control officer?
To put the concept of education levels in context in the UK education system, Level 2 equates to a modern GCSE standard (i.e. very much lower than an old “O” level), Level 3 is a modern “A” level ( a little bit higher than an old “O” level). Level 4 is supposed to be the same as an old HNC but now quoted as the first year course of a university course (a.k.a. Sweet FA), Level 5 is an old HND or the second year of a university course (a.k.a. marginally better than the first year) Level 6 is normally known as a Batchelors degree, Level 7 is a Masters and Level 8 a Doctorate/PhD.
But of course it all rather depends on the subject and where you get it for what it is actually worth at levels above 3. After all you can now get a level 6 degree qualification in how to shoe a horse rather than just learn how to do it the proper way……and all for £9,000 tuition fees per year for 3 years!
https://www.myerscough.ac.uk/courses/farriery/
Gotta keep those middle class tutors in a non-job after all.
From my walks in woods, Forest Crafts Peoples’ main purpose seems to be to ensure that all dead trees are just left lying about for insects to live in rather than serve as useful fuel to keep countryfolk warm,
When I spent nearly ten years in rural Limousin it always puzzled me why trees that had fallen or been blown over were just left. I never really got an explanation other than a French shrug and c’est normal. I decided that there was no need to do anything with it as there was no shortage of good firewood
Indeed. In the olden days the lanes were kept clear by locals cutting and taking the windfall trees and branches for their home fires, not wingeing to the Council.
A large oak tree fell over our rural road last year. I and neighbour (farmer types with chainsaws) went out and cut and cleared it to the roadside ditch in 40mins (just when the cops finally arrives to direct the traffic our wives had been directing for 40 mins). Some trunks were large needing my tractor to shove off the road.
Over the next 6 months I observed (I have too much wood of my own) what happened to the logs at the roadside. They all progressively got taken away by individuals . The old traditions still exist.
Was Robin Hood a forest craftperson?
“Was Robin Hood…?”
Yikes!. We have enough feral gangs in this country without adding a bunch of outlaws!
They say that Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor – with a little on the side for expenses.
So, he was nothing like our elite, who steal from the poor and give to the rich – with a LOT on the side for expenses.
Actually, he was ‘Robin Goodfellow’ – the very same mythical creature as ‘Puck’ – and he was a mischievous wood sprite. He was, thus, a confusion of two ‘demoted’ pre-Christian Gods. On the one hand, the trickster Loki of the Norse invaders of England and, on the other hand, the variously named – let us say ‘Adonis’ – the spirit of the vegetation, who lives and dies with it. That strange ulalation of women in the Middle East was originally their lament for him.
It all makes work for the Ministry to do. Too many Civil Servants are the problem in too many countries IMHO