15th June 2011, 09:04 AM
Will the scheme also allow for accreditation by experience and competence? I am thinking in particular of survey, GIS and illustration skills. Just attending a course on ArcGIS or AutoCAD or Leica Survey is sort of meaningless in itself at judging competence. That comes with practice, application, experience and results. How does that get registered in the skills passport? And how about folk who are totally self-schooled (of whom David I know you know a fair few). Will it only be possible to use the skills passport on accredited courses? I have the feeling there has to be a certain degree of self-assessment involved in this scheme - unless the idea is to set up a network of assessors.
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