Planning is 50

On the 27th of September, we will be hosting the panel debate Delivering the ambition: Planning for the 21st Century discussing some of the key planning issues and challenges being faced in the UK today, including:

• What roles and responsibilities should spatial planning play in delivering the ambitions for the future?
• Are there any further lessons from the work of the RTPI Education Commission?
• What more can initial professional education and lifelong learning do to help to deliver the ambition?

However this is far from an exhaustive list, we’d like you to contribute your own questions. What would you like to see discussed? If you think there are burning issues that need to be addressed, add your ideas for questions below as a comment:

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In late April students on the Advanced Diploma in Professional Studies in Planning and the Environment were coming to the end of the module. They were asked to look at a number of issues including:

• Local government- a crisis of legitimacy?
• How can representative and participatory democracy co-exist?
• What difference will e-government make?
• Will the English ever embrace regionalism?

Here they are, hard at work.

This course can be one rung on a ladder of opportunity for staff in planning and related employment who are seeking qualification for membership of the RTPI, but are unable to be admitted directly to a Masters programme, because they do not have appropriate pre-requisite qualifications at undergraduate level.

Over the years, planning education at UCE Birmingham has enabled many people from a wide variety of backgrounds to progress to full professional status by such routes.

If you’re a former or current student, or if you were in the workshop, what are your thoughts on these issues? How did your time here help form your opinions on them?

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During February the annual Leslie Ginsburg Prizes were awarded to three outstanding Planning students from the UCE Birmingham School of Property, Construction and Planning. Named after the late Professor Leslie Ginsburg, the founding Head of the Birmingham School of Planning, a Trust Fund was established to support named prizes for high-quality final dissertations and projects.

Continue reading The Leslie Ginsburg Award 2005-6

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