Anyone interested in giving some serious thought to the development and maintenance of engineering excellence in the Electrical Power Industry.

To provide a tour of current modern (and some not so modern) related thinking, stimulate some critical introspection, and encourage the translation of some of the better theory into practice.

1. National Framework
2. Approved Status
3. Business Needs
4. Government Policy
5. Funding

1. ETAs Approach
2. Structure of Units
3. Formation of NVQs/SVQs
4. ESSC, EORG
5. OSCEng
6. MCI
7. SARTOR 97
8. Engineering Council competence and committment (A-E etc)
9. ETA Electricity Industry Engineering competence framework
10. Framework Management software

• NVQ Philosophy/Concept

1. Pre-NVQ
2. New Standards
3. Competence Based
4. Access/Flexibility
5. Levels
6. Industry Lead
7. Awarding Bodies
8. QCA
9. NTO's

• Assessment & Quality Assurance

1. Role of ETA
2. Quality Assurance
3. Criteria for Assessment
4. ENTO ('TDLB')  Standards
5. Approved Centres
6. Candidate Log Book

1. Evidence
2. Credit Accumulation
3. Identify

1. Approved Centre Status
2. Certificate Design
3. Certificate Administration

• Terminology

1. Alphabet soup

1. Engineering Council/ Professional Institutes
2. CEng (IEE/IMechE) Membership requirements
3. IEng  Membership requirements
4. EngTech Membership requirements
5. Modern Apprenticeships
6. Eur Ing
7. CPD Philosophy
8. CPD Formal Structure
9. IPD/QPD
10. Matching Sections
11. Current  Developments

• Modern Adult Learning Theory

1. Rogers (Carl)
2. Knowles
3. Kelly
4. Kolb
5. Honey & Mumford
6. Bloom
7. Mager
8. Rose
9. Buzan
10. Senge
11. Gardener
12. NLP
13. Fletcher
14. Accelerated Learning
15. Experiential Learning
16. Action Learning
17. MUD
18. TMOA
19. Research it - Use it !
20. ATRU Cycles (naturally occurring; stimulated; problems with)
21. 'Push' - 'Pull' bias
22. Competence Management software

As each topic is covered the underlying philosophy and procedural issues will be explored in a participative manner.