UTS Online’s Dr. Parvez Mahmud, Program Director of the Master of Sustainable Energy and Master of Sustainable Leadership, said with carbon emissions and sustainability targets now being urgently adopted by governments and organisations worldwide, education providers have a key role to play in eliminating the ‘sustainable skills gap’.
“The role of education and training in closing the sustainable skills gap is very important. According to research quoted by LinkedIn, the Sustainable Skills Alliance estimates that there are 2 million jobs available globally in sustainable industries, yet only 600,000 people have been trained to fill them,” said Mahmud.
"The rapidly growing demand for sustainability skills is surpassing the increase in supply. According to LinkedIn’s 2023 Green Skills report, between 2022 and 2023, the proportion of green talent in the workforce increased by a median of 12.3% across the 48 countries examined. In contrast, the share of job postings requiring at least one green skill grew almost twice as fast, with a median increase of 22.4%."Clearly, there is an urgent need for an increased supply of professionals with sustainable skills to help combat climate change.
"The Master of Sustainable Leadership is specifically designed to address the challenges facing sustainable energies from multiple perspectives.
Launch master degree to sell false dream to those who still have money
Once the degree is completed, the roles would have been filled; it is always good to study a domain you love and make the best out of it down the line
One scenario where these sustainable degrees may make any sense is, you are a business who engages consulting firms, and you get a recommendation from them saying that you could use some C suits or one of the direct reports to your C suits carrying an ESG cred so that you can tick off a few boxes. So corporate staff are most likely to be the target for this degree.
I guess 3 CEOs max in a 20-student class
Universities need to stop claiming they create career because we all know most people don’t end up working on things they study in uni. And that’s okay, because all they are doing is more important which is call education:
Uni help building up knowledge in one field so student is comfortable to adapt in other disciplines - understand and experience the process require for one to become an decent expert
Much like public services, as most uni are funded by tax directly or indirectly, they ideally aren’t expected to make profit. Only exception is when education exported.
Imagine Centrelink and NDIS starts to make profit? Would be a funnier world
True, that’d be the best hope for an in class course.
Probably explains why they went online mode instead of in class mode for the two courses. Casting their net wider. If I’m not too wrong, brochures and flyers and posters for these courses have already arrived in every one of those 48 countries and would pounce on every potential student.
I do wish how QEMU (and VLC media player?) came out of France or Mastodon came out of Germany, Arduino came out of Italy, something of note comes from down under too. Something other than Atlassian. Sadly Aussie grads seem to find overseas employment more attractive, and most of those who stay don’t essentially work in their fields of study.
We contributes to wifi, google map, electronic pacemaker, blackbox, electric drill, ultrasound, hollow knight, McCafe, avocado toast to prevent the next gen buying houses /s
I guess we are taking a break for a while after all these