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:
Posted by Matt on July 3rd, 2007 in events, news | 4 Comments on Suggest Debate Topics
The school first started above a car showroom in Broad Street - as I recall it was a P. J Evans showroom selling Austin cars. The showroom was situated on the north side and fronted both onto Broad St. and an open “square”, actually a parking area in front of Bush House - a six or eight story post-war building occupied by the Council and in later years occupied in particular by the City Housing Department. The Evans building was a corner building which formed one side of this “square”. All of this has of course been cleared away for the development of Brindley Place.
Continue reading The Beginnings of the School of Planning
Posted by Alan Green on June 6th, 2007 in articles | 4 Comments on The Beginnings of the School of Planning
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?
Posted by Dick Pratt on May 2nd, 2007 in events | Comment on Professional Planning : Governance Task Groups
