Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
 
Board
Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects
 
chapter
Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects Regulations [18 VAC 10 ‑ 20]
Action Develop regulations for a mandatory continuing education requirement for architect, professional engineer, and land surveyor licenses.
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 5/2/2008
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3/25/08  4:33 pm
Commenter: Ronald Lee White, RA

On the Job Training is the Best Continuing Education
 

This is a thinly veiled attempt by educators and self-appointed registrars to generate another source of income and diminish professional competition. Education obtained by practicing Architecture is the most expensive and the most memorable means to obtain a professional education (thus the internship). The creation of another bureaucracy to lend an air of superiority to "education of the profession" implies that experience of practice is inadequate and would be an insult and injury to all practicing professionals.

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