PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
What is Professional Development and why is it important?
David Wright, Director General, UKLA
All qualifications are time-limited. This means that the learning attained on a graduate level course has a finite lifespan. According to the UK’s Government Department for Education, graduate degrees have a half-life of ten years and, without updating, the knowledge attained over a taught course can become redundant over twenty years.
To illustrate this point, think back twenty years to how the world of work and the lubricants sector has changed. In 1998, Euro 2 introducing differentiated standards for petrol and diesel engines was the emission standard for automotive vehicles in Europe. The Bio Fuels directive of 2001 requiring that 5.75% of all transport fossil fuels was to be replaced by bio fuels, had not been enacted. The consolidating REACH regulation of 2006 was still eight years away. The Kyoto protocol had been adopted by Japan the previous December.
a marketplace that is subject to intense emission regulations, environmental control and political scrutiny.
Every four years ACEA, the European Constructor’s Association, releases new engine oil sequences to meet the demanding needs of today’s modern vehicle. ECHA, the European Chemicals Agency, constantly registers, evaluates and approves or restricts chemical substances and mixtures to ensure they are not harmful to health. The European Commission
releases new emission regulations for the automotive sector at periodic intervals.
A Typical Training Cycle
The need to maintain knowledge that has been attained over previous training and learning cycles, or interventions, is now more important than ever to keep up with the pace of change affecting
Today change is the constant in the sector. The world of business and especially the lubricants industry moves fast. Each year new technologies are developed for
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our sector. In the world of training, professionals refer to their courses as interventions. Behaviour that has been learnt or built up over many years becomes that which is relied upon by the individual to handle new and sometimes uncomfortable experiences and settings.
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