(From thegovmonitor.com) The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced that all apprenticeships and vocational education training packages will be reviewed to ensure that they include relevant green skills by March next year, and that all courses will be revised to include the new green skills by the end of 2010.

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New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) -- Will pressure to trim budgets force organizations to ditch their green efforts? The good news is that for some organizations it has sped up the process to go green. Others still need more convincing.

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