Professional Development Scheme

Once again, in addition to having to possess the mentor characteristics detailed in Chapter 5, the prerequisite of the mentor in a professional development scheme is, of course, that he or she must possess in-depth knowledge about the particular type of competency that is to be developed. 

Tony Hardwick of the Institution of Electrical Engineers -A Professional Development Scheme... 

All the members of the organizations involved have been trained to the best professional standards with continuing professional development schemes. 

The assessment of professional ejqterience is much more difficult than the assessment of educational qualifications since the nature of the experience can vary so widely from one individual to another, depending on the environment in which the experience is gained. In the late 1980s, in an effort to provide a framewoik within which the experience can be recorded and classified, the BCS introduced its Professional Development Scheme (PDS). 

The accredited Monitored Professional Development Scheme (MPDS) is the IMechE s accredited and quality controlled route for graduate engineers to complete their initial professional development. The aim of the scheme is to develop engineers who can contribute to a company s success by using their technical and business competence, innovation and interpersonal skills, through a structured and monitored scheme. 

What are the benefits of professional development mentoring The main and most obvious benefit is the mentees acquisition of an important type of competency, intended to enhance business performance. Furthermore, although mentoring might not be the only developmental tool employed in this type of scheme, receiving one-to-one attention is likely to enable... 

Recently some initiatives have been taken in United Kingdom to increase the role of schools in the teacher training process. This is quite evident in the articled teacher scheme, which requires student teachers to spend most of a 2-year training period working under supervision in a school that shares responsibility for students professional development with a training institution. 

Table 40.4 Comparison of the relevant schemes for qualified geotechnical professionals developed in the U.K. and Germany ...

As a consequence, I would like to develop a working explanation or, perhaps more accurately, a schematic taxonomy for the particular kind of "knowledge-discipline" we find in science. My scheme is explicitly not a sociological model. In contrast, I draw on the notion of the construction of historical identities. In practice, national or ethnic identity may be conflated with professional or disciplinary identity, in a way that actually integrates the notions of "tradition" and "school" with that of our historical understanding of "discipline." In this explanation, the school is best understood by analogy to an extended family rather than to a nuclear group at one site. 

A host of award schemes for environmental reporting have sprung up around the world, perhaps the most significant being the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) scheme in the UK. Started in 1991, it aims to support the development of corporate environmental techniques. ACCA is one of the largest professional accountancy bodies in the world, with nearly 200 000 members. 

In order to learn more, and if possibly decrease environmental impacts through adjusted prescription patterns, the Research-based Pharmaceutical Industry in Sweden (LIE [20]) has developed an enviromnental classification scheme for pharmaceutical substances[21] The model for presenting environmental data was developed in collaboration with Stockholm County Council, the pharmacy chain Apoteket AB, the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKL), and the Swedish Medical Products Agency MPA. The goal was to develop a model, which clearly shows environmental information, both to interested members of the public, to healthcare professionals and pharmacists. The environmental information draws on data from the pharmaceutical companies, often generated in the preparation phase... 

Purifying the final product of a reaction can be the most challenging part of an experimental procedure. Professional organic chemists are constantly required to develop work-up sequences that allow isolation of a pure product, free from starting materials and other contaminants. They do this by considering the chemical and physical properties of both the desired and undesired substances, and it is important for you to gain exjjerience in devising such schemes as well. 

While it would be undesirable to lay down mechanistic criteria (so many months at such and such a level, so many at the next level, etc.) for assessing whether an applicant s professional experience is sufficient to meet the requirements for professional membership, the combination of the log book and the industiy structure model provide a useful framework within which an applicant s experience can be assessed. Many large employers have adopted the scheme as a basis for their own career development programmes. 

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