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Article: What's happening to CPD? How Continuing Professional Development is being reinvigorated by changing expectations and advances in technology.(Education Supplement)
- Article from:
- Journal of Banking and Financial Services
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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A number of significant developments are currently reshaping and reinvigorating the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) field, including:
* A general shift in the community's view that education should be a continuous lifetime process rather than just a qualification derived from a single event or course;
* An increasing number of industries and professional bodies are mandating minimum numbers of CPD hours or points; and
* The Internet and associated technology applications are offering new modes of delivery.
The traditional delivery channels for CPD are being hard pressed to meet the increasing demand for high quality ...