You are what you learn

The UK government’s recent initiatives on life long learning focus on giving people a number of “key skills” such as improving one’s learning and performance, problem‐solving ability and working with other people. The government believes such skills are essential to the UK’s continuing growth in a fast‐changing world economic environment. The identification of education with the nation’s prosperity sets particular challenges for those involved with vocational training and everyone out in the world of work. This article looks at how traditional approaches may increasingly need to be replaced with continuing professional development or CPD.