Future education : FIG commission 2 perspectives
Markus, Bela
Professional education and training will have a crucial role in developing of the capabilities for the networking society as well as educating the people who will use them. The networked world is changing the way we create products and provide services. Continuous education and training has become an important issue in the rapidly evolving new information society. A fundamental transformation continues to occur in higher education. Industry needs education and training programmes that are flexible, tailor made and cost effective. Students or trainees are also changing. In the rapidly-changing world, land administration must offer all employees greater opportunities for access to knowledge, irrespective of their age or social circumstances. The following problems were identified in the United Nations Meetings of Officials in Land Administration (UN MOLA) Workshop on Land Market in 1998 in Budapest: lack of education in the management, legal, economic, human and ethical aspects of land administration; general lack of user oriented approach to education; lack of continuity in education from universities to professions and appropriate linkage between the two.
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