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EC UK Quality Assurance Committee on CPD requirement

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Quality Assurance Committee on CPD requirement



Published: 01/11/2018

 



All Engineering Council registrants are committed to maintaining and enhancing their competence, which means undertaking Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

From 1 January 2019, licensed members will be required to sample their registrants’ CPD and sampling activity will become part of the licence review process.
Professionally active registrants who persistently do not respond to or engage with requests for CPD records from their institution risk removal from the Engineering Council Register.


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    Roy Pemberton:

    ...my reading of UKSPEC suggests to me that this does not meet the specification, and that is because UKSPEC is very prescriptive and describes a process that is highly valuable for a professional in the early stages of their career... 




    Roy,

    You are right but we are stuck with the specification. My feeling is that as my career has progressed the things I would count as 'CPD' have probably changed quite significantly.

    Also remember that one of the significant aspects of the EC CPD definition is point 4, the reflection. Someone going to snooze through a lecture and pick up CPD points can't really say that they have learned or achieved anything but it won't stop most people from saying that they have done CPD.

    I personally feel you have the right attitude to what CPD is, but we should be abiding by UK Spec (which we can still try to change for the better while doing so), but also remember that as Professionally Registered Engineers (and in some cases Fellows) we should be setting an example to the younger engineers aspiring for registration. I record my CPD in Career Manager (for all its faults) as I couldn't bring myself to say to those working towards registration that they should be doing something I wasn't willing to do myself.

    Alasdair

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    Roy Pemberton:

    ...my reading of UKSPEC suggests to me that this does not meet the specification, and that is because UKSPEC is very prescriptive and describes a process that is highly valuable for a professional in the early stages of their career... 




    Roy,

    You are right but we are stuck with the specification. My feeling is that as my career has progressed the things I would count as 'CPD' have probably changed quite significantly.

    Also remember that one of the significant aspects of the EC CPD definition is point 4, the reflection. Someone going to snooze through a lecture and pick up CPD points can't really say that they have learned or achieved anything but it won't stop most people from saying that they have done CPD.

    I personally feel you have the right attitude to what CPD is, but we should be abiding by UK Spec (which we can still try to change for the better while doing so), but also remember that as Professionally Registered Engineers (and in some cases Fellows) we should be setting an example to the younger engineers aspiring for registration. I record my CPD in Career Manager (for all its faults) as I couldn't bring myself to say to those working towards registration that they should be doing something I wasn't willing to do myself.

    Alasdair

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