The Audi Sailing Team Germany (STG) uses Sail Better, a mobile solution to help sailors and coaches increase training efficiency and share performance-critical data around boat control and sail trim settings.

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The federal government has started to address the need for green technician and efficiency retrofit training, such as with the Green Jobs Act, but it has not implemented an education strategy to keep the U.S. at the leading edge of energy science, technology, and entrepreneurship.

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Training and development for our frontline workers is vital to achieving efficiency and service-quality gains.

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It applies it to allocating grants for transportation, for workforce training programs, and for the way we encourage commercial building efficiency and electric vehicle deployment.

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They might even have some helpful ideas, like streamlining regulations, investing in critical infrastructure and research facilities, expanding support for training a new generation of skilled blue collar workers and using incentives to encourage firms to improve their energy efficiency.

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By comparing the number of graduates from accredited teacher-training programmes with the total number in the teaching workforce in public primary schools, it is possible to assess the efficiency of education systems to train teachers while attempting to meet the rising demand for teachers.

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