Promoting the interaction between education, research and professional practice
Enemark, Stig
Curriculum development is the key to the future. It is an ongoing process and it is crucial to both the educational institutions and the society they serve. This relates especially to educational programs designed to professionals such as the surveyors. There is no doubt that the main challenge of the future will be that the only constant is change. To deal with this constant change the educational base must be flexible. The graduates must be adaptable to a rapidly changing labour market. The point is that professional and technical skills can be acquired and updated at a later stage in ones career while skills for theoretical problem-solving and skills for learning to learn can only be achieved through the process of academic training at the universities. The focus should be on educating for life - not for short term skills. The paper touches on a range of issues and lessons learnt with a special emphasis on ways and means of building professional competence through curriculum development. The basic argument is that development, maintenance and enhancement of professional competence should be seen as a process facilitated through an efficient interaction between education, research and professional practice.
Event: Scientia Est Potentia : Knowledge is Power
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