This section provides details on how you can enhance and record your continual professional development.

In a fast-changing world, keeping your skills and knowledge current is fundamental to maintaining professional competence, instilling confidence in your colleagues, clients and the public, and getting ahead of the competition.

Continuous learning is not only important for your own professional growth but is also a demonstrable mark of your professionalism. The need for this forms part of CIHT’s Code of Professional Conduct, which all applicants for membership sign up to.

Members regularly inform us that one of the main reasons they join CIHT is to have access to the latest information on developments in the sector and understand how these impact on their work.

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) process provides a structure for members to manage their professional development, requiring them to think about the knowledge that they need, make  arrangements to undertake the appropriate learning, record what they have learned, and reflect on how they can use that new
knowledge in their work.

What counts as CPD?

Ideally, CPD activities should be varied and cover a wide range of relevant learning opportunities. CIHT expects practising members to complete at least 25 hours of CPD activity each year, which can include:

• Participating in CIHT regional meetings, seminars and technical events, or events held by other professional or trade bodies operating in the sector
• Members are able to participate in Regional events and technical visits
• Becoming a CIHT STEM Ambassador and inspiring the next generation to engage in a career in transport
• Imparting your knowledge and skills to others within or outside your organisation as a mentor
• Accessing online learning such as CIHT podcasts
• Attending short training courses
• Gaining a professional qualification such as Engineering Technician, Incorporated Engineer, Chartered Engineer, Transport Planning Professional, SoRSA Certificate of Competency or Chartered Manager
• Reading Transportation Professional and similar publications
• Watching and listening to recorded events and seminars from CIHT’s YouTube channel
• Contributing to a CIHT Committee, Board or Panel, or other groups working on technical projects or initiatives.
  
  

The choice of activity is entirely up to you and what fits best with your Professional Development Plan.

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Question?

For more information, please see these pages or contact e: education@ciht.org.uk