ABSTRACT
Hitherto, the debate about professional education has largely focused on the relationship between selection and recruitment, the process of initial qualification (comprising various mixtures of course work, examinations and supervised work experience) and subsequent practice. Continuing professional education (CPE) has received little attention in many professions; and has only been seriously studied in medicine and schoolteaching. Apart from a natural conservatism, this is probably because the financial arrangements for post-school education are dominated by the presumed needs of 16-21year-olds.
