RTPI Education Commission

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RTPI Education Commission

• Reported in 2003
• Increase the supply of an effective cadre of
  planners and technical support
• Recognise the growing global and international
  context for planning
• Create and foster an educational continuum
• Support and enhance the value of planning courses
• Promote inclusivity, opportunity and flexibility
• Support the development of skills, knowledge and
  competencies of practitioners throughout their
  working lives

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Where are we?

• Intensive Masters Degrees
• Partnership Approach
• New Schools
• APC Licentiate Membership
• Learning Partnerships
• Associate Membership

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Intensive Masters degrees

• One year full time, two year part-time
• Bursaries from ODPM/DCLG
• Uplift in recruitment to Masters degrees
• Some uplift in undergraduate recruitment at
  larger schools
• Potential danger decline of undergraduate
  education as some schools close U/G provision

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Partnership Boards

• Represents each established accredited school
• Members from academia, practice the RTPI
• Partnership approach to accreditation
• Creative, innovative, flexible
• Employer involvement important
• Developmental plus scrutiny function

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New Planning Schools

• Provisional accreditation introduced for new
  schools this year
• Others seeking accreditation UK and Overseas
• New undergraduate as well as postgraduate courses
• Combined, specialist or spatial qualifications

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Assessment of Professional Competence
Licentiate Membership

• More structured, supportive route
• More rigorous test of competence
• Reflective log book
• Professional Development Planning
• Access to a mentor
• Detailed written report
• New Licentiate class to support graduates

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Associate Membership

• New membership class
• Structured route to membership for those without
  an accredited planning qualification
• Promoting professional development and career
  pathways
• Involving the wider planning community and allied
  profession in the activities of the Institute
• Scheduled roll out December 2006

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Learning Partnerships

• Aimed at employers of Planners including
  interdisciplinary practices
• Benchmarking promoting best practice in
  training development
• Benefit employees by assisting with training,
  development CPD
• Benefit employers by promoting excellent
  practice, benefiting recruitment retention
• Emerging 2006

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Future Work Education

• Review undergraduate provision
• Develop advanced certificates
• Encourage professional doctorates
• Develop Foundation Degrees
• Review and develop interdisciplinary learning
• Review and develop the role of distance learning
• Review the impact of Bologna Declaration
• Review the impact of changes in fees and funding
• Continue to promote and support the development
  of existing and new planning courses in the UK
  and overseas

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Future Work - Lifelong Learning CPD

• Work to adopt a more structured progressive
  approach to CPD Lifelong Learning
• Development of a Lifelong Learning Strategy
• Accreditation of providers?
• Advanced Certificates
• Provision of courses for support staff

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Future Work Membership Careers

• Better promotion of planning as career choice
• More structured engagement with the national
  curriculum
• Review Membership continuum
• Continue to roll out and monitor APC
• Better promotion of Technical Membership
• Addressing questions of diversity equal
  opportunity