Just as doctors, lawyers and accountants belong to a professional body and continue to develop their knowledge and practice, so will trainers and tutors in the learning and skills sector be accorded professional status and expected to keep their subject and teaching skills up to date.
Of course, many providers and trainers already treat CPD as essential to their practice. EAGIT Training in East Anglia, for example, has made CPD part of its culture. The company has been in business since 1967, providing training in engineering, and knew that it would have to make changes in order to secure its future in the WBL sector. To ensure that it had a fully trained complement of staff, it decided to develop its own, very successful CPD model, based on subject learning coaching.
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