9 Challenges
- The changing context of professional practice. The world of the professional has changed significantly over the past 30 years.
- Ensuring relevance not only in CPD provision but in a first professional qualification
- Facilitating enhanced engagement between professionals, registration bodies, employers and educational providers
- The competing demands professionals and employers face, can these be reconcile?
- Who is responsible for professional development, the professional, the employer or both?
- Motivation and issues relating to mandatory versus voluntary CPD
- Ensuring that there is a corelation between what educators teach, what is required by registration bodies and what matters in terms of actual performance on the job
- New modes of CPD delivery given the dispersed and time poor nature of professional workforces
- The changing labour market dynamics.
The discussion was wide ranging. Several of the insights I took away included;
- Many professions face similar issues but rarely talk to each other about them or learn from each other
- A concern that 1st professional degrees are increasingly removed from practice
- Variable levels of engagement between the educators and employers
- A lot of learning can take place informally yet this can easily be fractured by organisations. Equally organisations can do things that facilitate a learning culture
- The need for organisations and professions to create uncluttered spaces where reflection and learning can occur
- There are many professionals who are motivated and committed lifelong learners. The focus needs to be on those most in need and who are a risk to their clients
- The value of case based and experiental learning. Providing forums for professionals to meet and exchange knowledge and skills with each other.
Posted: Sat 27 Mar 2010
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