Planning is 50

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 at 2:52 pm in events.