The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program was introduced in January 1992 to enable members to stay ahead with developments in our profession so as to enable us to provide the best possible service to our clients and employers, and to maintain our existence as the leading authority in the field.
CPD is defined as the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skill, and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional and technical duties throughout the practitioner's working life.
CPD attainment is to be a mandatory requirement for every Fellow, Member, Probationer and Technical Member to comply. Members must clock in at least a total of 60 hours in a 3-year period i.e. 20 hours per year.
Members are responsible for maintaining a record of their participation in the CPD activities in the CPD Booklet and send a copy to the Institute when so requested.
Members who have completely retired from practice and Honorary Fellows are exempted from this requirement.
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Valuation & General Practice |
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Activity |
CPD hours awarded for VGP Core Activities : 1. Valuation
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CPD hours awarded for VGP Non-Core Activities : 1. Land Surveying |
Type of Activity |
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A1 |
3 CPD hours for every hour or part thereof.
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2 CPD hour for every hour or part thereof. |
Delivery of papers in a talk, training session, lecture, seminar, conference, workshop, site/technical visit, or forum panelist. |
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A2 |
1 CPD hour for every hour or part thereof subject to a maximum of 10 CPD hours per event. |
1 CPD hour for every hour or part thereof subject to a maximum of 5 CPD hours per event. |
Attendance of talk, training session, lecture, seminar, conference, workshop, site/technical visit, or forum. |
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B |
1 CPD hour for every hour or part thereof subject to a maximum of 10 CPD hours per year. |
0.5 CPD hour for every hour or part thereof subject to a maximum of 5 CPD hours per year. |
Discussion, meeting, industry dialogue,etc on technical topics. These should have some formalised structure eg. a paper, video or tape, a competent person in charge of the proceedings, the subject matter be announced in advance, and minutes of meetings to be kept etc. |
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C |
1 CPD hour for every 2 hours or part thereof subject to a maximum of 10 CPD hours per year. |
0.5 CPD hour for every 2 hours or part thereof subject to a maximum of 5 CPD hours per year. |
Complete a full-time or part-time formal course organised by colleges, polytechnics, universities, professional bodies, recognised course providers leading to a certificate of passing, diploma, degree, or an additional higher qualification eg. MBAs, PhD. |
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D |
1 CPD hour for every 2 hours or part thereof subject to a maximum of 5 CPD hours per year. |
0.5 CPD hour for every 2 hours or part thereof subject to a maximum of 3 CPD hours per year. |
Distance-learning or correpondencecourses, supervised study packages, being a programme of reading, recorded lectures, webinar.
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E |
1 CPD hour per article subject to amaximum of 5 CPD hours per year. |
0.5 CPD hour per article subject to a maximum of 3 CPD hour per year. |
Private studies of a structured nature. Structured reading prompted by a problem and towards solving the problem can be counted eg. readingfrom a wide variety of sources having pre-determined the reasons and to gather information in a systematic way. Reading of pre-course materials, and background papers to a conference/ seminar etc can be counted. |
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F |
1 CPD hour per article subject to amaximum of 10 CPD hours per year. |
0.5 CPD Unit per article subject to a maximum of 5 CPD hour per year. |
Research work carried out in response to a work related problem for a client or leading to understanding of a new and relevant subject, etc may be included. |
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G |
4 CPD hours per topic subject to amaximum of 12 CPD hours per year.
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2 CPD hours per topic subject to amaximum of 6 CPD hours per year. |
Authorship of published works. These works normally should consist of technical or academic articles published in a professional journal or other published form. |
