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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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    Our challenge if we think registration (including CPD) is a good thing, is for it to add value.  A culture has been created over many years that CEng is a “qualification”, rather than on-going annual request to be included on a register. It would be difficult and potentially painful to change this, so we don’t want to. 



    CEng, and IEng and EngTech, are already registrations.  That's why you have to pay the yearly membership fee.  Fail to pay that fee for a year, and you are no longer a CEng (or IEng or EngTech).


    Like most professional registration schemes, there is a requirement to show that you are a fit person to stay on the scheme.  Some schemes use mandatory training and inspections.  Some use CPD.


    The EC has been pretty lax about enforcing CPD for many years.  But now they are pushing the various institutions to actually check that their members are doing it.  And it's ruffling a few feathers of people who thought that a CEng (or IEng or EngTech) was a qualification for life.
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    Our challenge if we think registration (including CPD) is a good thing, is for it to add value.  A culture has been created over many years that CEng is a “qualification”, rather than on-going annual request to be included on a register. It would be difficult and potentially painful to change this, so we don’t want to. 



    CEng, and IEng and EngTech, are already registrations.  That's why you have to pay the yearly membership fee.  Fail to pay that fee for a year, and you are no longer a CEng (or IEng or EngTech).


    Like most professional registration schemes, there is a requirement to show that you are a fit person to stay on the scheme.  Some schemes use mandatory training and inspections.  Some use CPD.


    The EC has been pretty lax about enforcing CPD for many years.  But now they are pushing the various institutions to actually check that their members are doing it.  And it's ruffling a few feathers of people who thought that a CEng (or IEng or EngTech) was a qualification for life.
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