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Continuing Professional Development and the Philippine Qualifications Framework: A Way Forward to Mutual Recognition Arrangements

Continuing Professional Development and the Philippine Qualifications Framework: A Way Forward to Mutual Recognition Arrangements
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Author(s): Lourdes Tenmatay David (Professional Regulation Commission of the Republic of the Philippines, Philippines)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 17
Source title: Internationalization of Library and Information Science Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Reysa Alenzuela (The University of the South Pacific Emalus Campus, Vanuatu), Heesop Kim (Kyungpook National University, South Korea)and Danilo M. Baylen (University of West Georgia, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2273-8.ch002

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Abstract

The Philippines is unique among the ASEAN member states (AMS) in implementing its continuing professional development (CPD) policy among its professionals. It is the only AMS that requires CPD compliance for the renewal of the Professional Identification Card of its professionals. For that matter, it is the only country in the ASEAN that requires graduates of Library and Information Science to take and pass a licensure examination before they can practice the profession. The Bachelor's degree in LIS also has a common curriculum for all the schools offering the degree as mandated by the Commission on Higher Education except for autonomous higher education institutions. The chapter discusses the laws, practices, and issues that affect the practice of librarianship in the Philippines and how CPD impacts the ASEAN Qualifications Framework (AQRF), career progression and eventually the Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRA) among ASEAN member countries.

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