PRC holds first ever Professional Summit October 2012

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces Friday morning the holding of the first ever Professional Summit with a theme “Convergence of Professionals for Nation Building and Global Competitiveness” on October 18-19, 2012 at the Manila Hotel.

PRC First Professional Summit 2012
Photo: First Professional Summit 2012

The Summit will take up the current state of the practice of the various regulated professions in the country in order to address the mismatch of supply and demand of professionals, galvanize support to and cooperation of the professional sector in the Philippine Development Plan, and come up with strategies, action plans, and recommendations to resolve pressing issues relating to global events, including climate change and risk management, PRC said.

The summit also aims to enhance the knowledge and capabilities of the PRC, the Professional Regulatory Boards and Accredited Professional Organizations (APOs).

Specifically, the seminars are intended to generate greater awareness and understanding of the implementation of free trade in services under various international agreements; validate, improve and widen ownership of drafted competitiveness roadmaps for specific professions; discuss and generate inputs for preparing promotional materials of respective professions to be used for local and global placement of professional services; strengthen collaborative partnerships among PRC, PAPRB, PRBs, APOs and DTI in building competitiveness of Filipino Professionals; firm up roles and responsibilities and formulate action plans of respective professions in support to the implementation of the PEDP and of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP).

 



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