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Continual Professional Development

How many of you have logged your CPD assignments in order to maintain your skills and professional (chartered) status, in the past year?

How many of you would go to a doctor, dentist, pharmacist, accountant or even lawyer who had not?

Until Software Engineers are required to have Chartered (or local equivalent) status to practice, then wages will be suppressed by the mass of (relatively) unproven workforce.

My Pharmacist wife earns more in 3 days than I earn in 5, despite me earning more than the UK average according to this survey.

I'm reaching for the flameproof coat now!

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