Play school for professionals

Early autumn 1978 saw a dramatic new idea hit the universe — well perhaps not all that new or dramatic, and only the world of the chartered surveyor. But in effect a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' educational policy committee came up with the unaccountably undigested recommendation that all members should undergo 20 hours of structured learning each year, starting in 1980. In the meantime dust has presumably settled, and as far as I am aware the suggestion is still being discreetly nibbled by the surveying establishment. If the Institution adopts the idea, its ramifications may well spread to other spheres of education and training and leave in its wake a wave of unacceptable problems. On the other hand, of course, the principle could have a practical answer to some problems outside the professions.