Training

Sources of CPD

Professional development can be achieved in hundreds of ways - reading is just as important as attending courses.

  • Day to day resources in your ordinary work; colleagues, user groups, lunchtime seminars
  • Suppliers' promotional literature and seminars IHE conferences and courses, with discounts for members
  • IHE approved short courses and accredited providers
  • IHE local branches; visits, meetings and seminars
  • Local college and university evening classes and short courses, which cover a wide range of topics
  • The Association for Project Safety, Symmons Madge and TTT offer CDM training
  • Technical press: , NCE and Surveyor (both weekly), Local Transportation Today (every two weeks), Highways, Trasnport Planning and Traffic Engineering and Control (monthly)
  • Royal Town Planning Institute's local branches publish CPD newsletters and publishes an online learning resource: www.planningmatters.co.uk
  • DfT website for new codes and regulations
  • Institution of Civil Engineers for details of local association meetings and courses
  • Thomas Telford Training (TTT) and PTRC have an extensive range of courses
  • City of Bath College Highways Open Tech offers specialist distance learning in maintenacne and traffic and short courses
  • Open University provides materials in management and computing
  • Highways training centres in several counties offer maintenance, safety and management courses
  • OUAB provides NVQs in road safety, traffic engineering and systems management, transportation planning, transportation technical support, highway maintenance, management and technology management
  • EdExcel provides NVQs in design, planning supervision and site management
  • The NBS Civil Engineering Channel a subscription service for companies, offering learning services online or on DVD/CD
  • www.cpdevents.org.uk is the Construction Industry's database.
  • University of Derby Asphalt distance learning diploma
  • Aston CPD Centre: Designing Infrastructure for Cyclists - assessed distance learning modules, in association with Aston University.

IHE Professional Review
Applicants need to:

  • Show commitment to structured professional development by keeping an action plan drawing on any of the above sources (and more)
    and
  • Complete 3, 7 or 10 'CPD Days'- formal, off the job CPD events- in the two years before submitting their Review submission.

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