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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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  • Alasdair,


    However equally we do need to make sure people are clear that they don't have to use Career Manager to meet UKSpec - there does seem to be considerable misunderstanding about this. I'm in the middle (as ever!), I found it ok to use when I tried as a test, but I don't actually use it. I think it's horses for courses.


    The point about reflection is a good one, but then that's also a requirement of registration in the first place. So what I suspect will happen is that the forms of acceptable evidence for CPD (including reflection etc) will end up looking remarkably similar to the forms of acceptable evidence for professional registration - and, let's face it it's going to be almost certainly the same people doing the assessment!


    Now that all said (from all my posts above), I suppose it is very possible (from what I remember of the IETs proposed process) that on a first review Roy and I would get our wrists slapped and told to come back in three months time with a formal plan and record. Hard to predict how that conversation would actually pan out as it would depend totally on the attitude of the person from the IET's side who is conducting it...so I don't really feel I can comment more. As you can imagine I am very very used to being audited in all sorts of ways (I'm sure Roy is as well) so this isn't a prospect I personally find terribly concerning.


    BUT I do feel that the IET could do considerably more to explain to members the many and varied ways they can manage this, beyond Career Manager.


    Cheers,


    Andy
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  • Alasdair,


    However equally we do need to make sure people are clear that they don't have to use Career Manager to meet UKSpec - there does seem to be considerable misunderstanding about this. I'm in the middle (as ever!), I found it ok to use when I tried as a test, but I don't actually use it. I think it's horses for courses.


    The point about reflection is a good one, but then that's also a requirement of registration in the first place. So what I suspect will happen is that the forms of acceptable evidence for CPD (including reflection etc) will end up looking remarkably similar to the forms of acceptable evidence for professional registration - and, let's face it it's going to be almost certainly the same people doing the assessment!


    Now that all said (from all my posts above), I suppose it is very possible (from what I remember of the IETs proposed process) that on a first review Roy and I would get our wrists slapped and told to come back in three months time with a formal plan and record. Hard to predict how that conversation would actually pan out as it would depend totally on the attitude of the person from the IET's side who is conducting it...so I don't really feel I can comment more. As you can imagine I am very very used to being audited in all sorts of ways (I'm sure Roy is as well) so this isn't a prospect I personally find terribly concerning.


    BUT I do feel that the IET could do considerably more to explain to members the many and varied ways they can manage this, beyond Career Manager.


    Cheers,


    Andy
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