Training focus - Winter 2012

17th December 2012

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Charting a new course

Paul Suff reports on the forthcoming changes to the chartered environmentalist qualification

21st century workers

Linda Miller on the findings of an EU study looking at skills needed for the green economy

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One year after becoming IEMA Associates, Tata Steel staff talk to Sarah-Jayne Russell about the longer-term impacts of completing the course

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