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Personal Development Planning (PDP) is part of the HE Progress File [Guidline (pdf)] which is now being introduced across all levels of higher education as a result of the National Committee of Inquiry in Higher Education (Dearing and Garrick reports). All HEIs are expected to have policies for the implementation of PDP in place by 2005/06. |
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Recommendation 20 of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, 1997 (the 'Dearing Report') stated that:
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...institutions of Higher Education should, over the medium term, develop a Progress File. The File should consist of two elements:
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- a transcript recording student achievement which should follow a common format devised by institutions collectively through their representative bodies;
- a means by which students can monitor, build and reflect upon their personal development'.
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The Progress File is essentially the HE 'missing link' which will succeed the National Record of Achievement [NRA] in Schools, and precede the Continuing Professional Development [CPD] processes undertaken by many graduate employers.
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