Hi Tina
Thanks for this. CILIP is already closely involved with 'raising the
professional profile', in particular as a member of UKIPG (UK Inter
Professional Group), of which RICS is also a member. Current discussion is
centred on the values of belonging to a professional body - the importance
of ethics and integrity amongst others.
Our representative, Margaret Watson, Chairs UKIPG's FE/HE Working Party and
she also represents UKIPG on the Access to the Professions Collaborative
Forum (run formerly by DIUS, and now BIS). She was also UKIPG's rep on DIUS'
'Strengthening Partnerships Group' which brought together HE Institutions,
Sector Skills Councils and professional bodies.
Margaret received a copy of the SPADA report at the end of last week from
the Chair of UKIPG and she and Guy Daines (CILIP's Director of Policy and
Advocacy) are currently studying it. Council are looking forward to an
update report at the end of this month, after the next meeting of the
Professions Collaborative Forum.
Clearly it will be important for the professions to act together on a matter
like this through a group like UKIPG and this seems to be happening.
You can find the full report at:
http://www.spada.co.uk/british-professions-today/
I hope this helps
Bruce
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Subject: 'widespread ignorance' of value of UK professions
All,
I thought this might be of interest- maybe CILIP could get involved?
RICS fights 'widespread ignorance' of value of UK professions
RICS has joined forces with professional bodies the Law Society and the
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to fight back
against the "mis-categorisation and widespread ignorance" of the UK
professional sectors and their value to the economy.
The bodies have published a research paper in association with
consultant Spada which claims the UK professions are "miscategorised,
understudied and their contribution comprehensively undervalued despite
comprising the country's single most important know-how industry,
employing 3.5 million people".
In particular they argue that the professions are not "showing up
strongly enough in official debate, losing out to groups such as the
CBI".
The bodies argue: "[UK professions] must collaborate to develop a
unified voice on many policy areas and engage more effectively with
government, business, organised labour and consumer interests."
Louis Armstrong, chief executive of RICS, who initiated the report,
said: "Paradoxically UK professionals have traditionally been
undervalued in their own country, while consistently being regarded as
the 'gold standard' around the world.
"As we rebuild our services-based economy after the credit crunch, the
expertise and ethical values of Britain's professionals will be in the
vanguard."
Charles Tilley, chief executive of CIMA, said: "Our professional bodies
are world class, self-funding and therefore focused on delivering the
skills and professional competence required in each sector.
"Care must be taken to ensure that taxpayers' money is not spent on
duplicating their efforts through Sector Skills Councils."
Tina
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