Professional Education

Professional education.

Professional education: Some reflections

It was a courageous decision to found a journal in the early 1980’s; and it was nothing less than a leap of faith to name a journal: Education for Information. The times were not auspicious: people were becoming less certain as to what ‘Education’ was; and it was often said of ‘Information’ that it told one more about the user of the term than it did about its intended objective correlative. Li...

AAPOS Professional Education Committee

Higher professional education

We wish to commend Patterson et al (March Journal)1 on their endeavour to describe a competency model for general practice. We fully support their view that it is important to be able to describe not only what we do but also what our patients want us to do. We are also gratified that they have provided further support for the validity of the component consultation competences contained within t...

Professional software Engineering Education

This paper is a speculation about how universities might organize new lines of business in software engineering professional education. Professional education enables practicing professionals to achieve defined levels of competence and to be certified according to standards in their professions. This kind of education is offered at very few universities. This paper proposes a conceptual framewo...