Surveying practice involvement in providing
vocational skills training for undergraduate
building surveyors : the ICZ way

McLean, SN

Abstract

The paper starts from a documented premise of
there being a critical shortage of skilled building
surveyors. It also uses a researched premise that
all stakeholders to building surveying education
favour the incorporation of vocational skills training
alongside academic instruction. This creates graduates
already possessing of core vocational skills
and a knowledge of practice. The question posed
is whether practice themselves can assist in this
skills transfer, or whether it should be left wholly
to specialist educators to devise ways of delivering
such knowledge. A fortunate opportunity which
allows the author to evaluate two identical activities
of dilapidations surveying undertaken by the
same learners, in the same academic period, under
identical conditions, with one facilitated and lead
by a specialist surveying tutor as an industrial
simulation and the other facilitated and lead by
a current practitioner, on a current dilapidations
instruction. Findings tend towards a belief that
practice reaching out to assist educators is a worthwhile
way that any future skills shortages can be
addressed through graduates entering practice with
greater experience of vocational practices and skills.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 13, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jun 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Apr 16, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 20, 2018
• Journal: Journal of Building Surveying Appraisal and Valuation
• Print ISSN: 2046-9594
• Electronic ISSN: 2046-9608
• Publisher: Henry Stewart Publications
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 85-92
• Related Public URLs: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hsp/jbsav/2018/00000007/00000001/art00012#expand/collapse