Professional Competence And Higher Education

Based on lessons learned from the ASSET programme, a national project to develop a competence-based model of curriculum and assessment, this text presents a research based description of a possible future for higher education and for education of the profession.

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Explores the impact on vocational higher education of tensions between established professional competence and the values of universities and professional bodies, and outlines the work and results of a British program to developed a competence-based model of curriculum and assessment. Focusing on objectives, considers their format and degree of specificity, how they are derived and integrated, and whether they include values and transferable skills. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Richard Winter is a Professor of Education at Anglia Polytechnic. He helps to co-edit the journal 'Teaching in Higher Education' and is a member of the national advisory panel on vocational education of the Committee of Vice Chancellors nad Principals and the expert panel on assessment of the Higher Education Quality Council. Maire Maisch has worked in the social work field for the past eighteen years. She is Principal Lecturer in Social Work Education and is responsible for the BSc in Social Work at Anglia Polytechnic University.