Routes and Requirements

Autumn 2007

Context

This Research was a joint project between Stan Lester and PARN The research aimed to investigate the various professional associations’ qualifying routes, to examine the routes available to ‘becoming qualified’ in a selection of professions includes:

• what’s considered as ‘professionally qualified’ in each occupation (& its status for practising e.g. essential / desirable / possibly useful)

• routes available to achieving it, proportion coming in by each, associated issues

• barriers - consider e.g. non-graduates, career-change, from associated / subsidiary occupations

• changes - in available routes, in the way people enter the profession.

Outputs

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‘Requirements for becoming qualified vary between professions, as do the routes available to would-be practitioners to reach qualified level. This book reports on research undertaken during the autumn of 2007 to investigate routes to and requirements for professionally qualified status in a selection of UK-based professions.’

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