| | Professional bodies, CPD and informal learning: the case of conservation - Stan Lester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Professional bodies in the UK are increasingly adopting formal continuing professional development schemes to encourage and in theory compel members to keep up-to-date and enhance their competence. |
 | | Continuing (or continuous) professional development has been described as "the maintenance and enhancement of the knowledge, expertise and competence of professionals throughout their careers according to a plan formulated with regard to the need of the professional, the employer, the profession and society" (Madden and Mitchell 1993, p12). |
 | | professional bodies is typically on overt, formal and public means, with any informal learning in the background, for the individual it is the informal which looms largest and the formal inputs which play a supporting role" (1994, p71). |
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