https://www.economist.com/britain/2018/09/15/rebuilding-british-higher-educations-most-unusual-institution
Rebuilding British higher education’s most unusual institution .
Roy Bowdler:
PS for Andy,We do of course have the new IET Academy proposition.
Yeeeeeees....I'm still struggling with whether it's ethical to charge £1647 for an online course on engineering ethics 
And I think we have to be very careful about being both a education provider and providing education accreditation. It's a difficult one this - the IET's role is to develop engineering expertise and professionalism itself and to support and encourage others in providing that development. As soon as IET training provision becomes a serious business stream this gets very difficult - if I was a competing training provider I would be concerned.
Hopefully everyone involved in the IET has paid £1647 and taken that course so they can correctly manage the ethics of this situation 
(Sorry, ethics is very much in my field, and is a subject I think is hugely important for all engineers. I think the IET should be providing probably the majority of the material in this course to every member for free. And, to be fair, the prices for the other courses in the Academy tend to be far more reasonable - although probably still out of reach for many without their employer's support.)
Cheers, Andy
Roy Bowdler:
PS for Andy,We do of course have the new IET Academy proposition.
Yeeeeeees....I'm still struggling with whether it's ethical to charge £1647 for an online course on engineering ethics
And I think we have to be very careful about being both a education provider and providing education accreditation. It's a difficult one this - the IET's role is to develop engineering expertise and professionalism itself and to support and encourage others in providing that development. As soon as IET training provision becomes a serious business stream this gets very difficult - if I was a competing training provider I would be concerned.
Hopefully everyone involved in the IET has paid £1647 and taken that course so they can correctly manage the ethics of this situation (Sorry, ethics is very much in my field, and is a subject I think is hugely important for all engineers. I think the IET should be providing probably the majority of the material in this course to every member for free. And, to be fair, the prices for the other courses in the Academy tend to be far more reasonable - although probably still out of reach for many without their employer's support.)
Cheers, Andy
