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Information for practitioners
Practitioner training and development
Shortage of RMA practitioners
The Challenges of Student Recruitment - Getting and Keeping Planning Students
Influences on course decisions
- My interests
- Salary at graduation
- My parents
Other influences
- My friends
- School Careers Teacher
Year 13 Geography Syllabus
- Geography is an important source of planning students
- Includes a Planning and Decision Making section
- Is a double edged sword - dependent on quality of teaching
Challenges
- Diversity of choice
- Glamour careers - performing arts, IT, tourism
- Status careers - LLB
- Demographics
- Public face of RMA
The way forward
- Each of us is a billboard for planning
- Profession needs a better image
- Need to keep existing practitioners
- Need to get interesting & accurate material to students and parents
Last updated: 16 January 2009
