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• 50 Year Anniversary12 November 2021
  The Australian Council of Professions is celebrating 50 Years of thought leadership and advocacy for professional associations and their member professionals. Since the mid-1960s, there had been state-based interest and activities to coordinate and support … Continue reading “50 Year Anniversary”
• Work-Integrated Learning during the Pandemic and Beyond9 November 2021
  Despite the ongoing disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to ensure graduates entering the Professions in the future are work ready. While many innovative ways of providing WIL have been developed, more efforts are … Continue reading “Work-Integrated Learning during the Pandemic and Beyond”
• Forum for Climate Action4 November 2021
  With our Member Organisations endorsing the global Professional Bodies Climate Action Charter, the Australian Council of Professions is facilitating an initiative to assist other professional organisations exploring ways they too can help secure a sustainable … Continue reading “Forum for Climate Action”
• Professional Organisations support the Climate Charter!2 November 2021
  With the discourse on “Net Zero by 2050” and similar goals running hot, we have explored the possibilities of professional associations in Australia and New Zealand expressing their support for progressing the goals of the … Continue reading “Professional Organisations support the Climate Charter!”
• Neurodiversity in the Professions16 September 2021
  “Neurodiversity may be every bit as crucial for the human race as biodiversity is for life in general. Who can say what form of wiring will prove best at any given moment?” wrote Harvey Blume … Continue reading “Neurodiversity in the Professions”
• Ethical Concerns on Artificial Intelligence15 September 2021
  The game-changing promises of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to do things more efficiently, faster and at a lower cost have recently been tempered by concerns. Can these complex, opaque AI systems do more societal harm than … Continue reading “Ethical Concerns on Artificial Intelligence”
• Less Blame Shifting – More Listening21 July 2021
  In response to the increasingly concerning trend in public statements that appear to undermine the confidence in Australia’s leading vaccination and health advice, ACoP has publicly called for a reset in the current tone of … Continue reading “Less Blame Shifting – More Listening”
• NAIDOC Week 2021: How can Professionals help Heal Country?4 July 2021
  Each July, NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The theme for 2021 is a call to ‘Heal Country, Heal our Nation!’ As the unifying alliance for … Continue reading “NAIDOC Week 2021: How can Professionals help Heal Country?”
• ACoP Responds to Proposed New TEQSA Fees and Charges7 June 2021
  Our submission to the TEQSA ‘Fees and Charges Proposal Consultation Paper’ is based on aggregated responses from our Member Organisations regarding the impacts of cost recovery on their ability to continue delivering quality higher education. … Continue reading “ACoP Responds to Proposed New TEQSA Fees and Charges”
• International Consultant’s Day: Thursday 3rd June 20213 June 2021
  Many of our Member Organisations have special events where they promote their profession to the public. ACoP is delighted to join our Member Organisation Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) in celebrating International Consultants Day 2021. … Continue reading “International Consultant’s Day: Thursday 3rd June 2021”
• Empowering Diversity through Consultancy3 June 2021
  The Australian Council of Professions (ACoP) supports broad-based diversity and inclusion as one of its key policy and advocacy areas and is delighted that one of our member organisations, the Institute of Management Consultants, is … Continue reading “Empowering Diversity through Consultancy”
• More than a Word – Reconciliation takes Action27 May 2021
  The Australian Council of Professions supports the reconciliation process with First Nations Peoples and in National Reconciliation Week 2021 calls on its member organisations and their professionals to be exemplars of truth-telling, accountability and responsibility.  … Continue reading “More than a Word – Reconciliation takes Action”
• Chief Professionalist Round Table13 May 2021
  The last 12 months have seen unprecedented challenges for Australia and a driving question has been “Who can we trust?“.  Many professionals have stepped-up to that challenge and shown that science-based, deeply considered expert guidance … Continue reading “Chief Professionalist Round Table”
• ACoP opens Office of the Chief Professionalist23 April 2021
• Plotting the Journey to Professionalism for English Teachers18 April 2021
  ACoP was invited to present at the 2021 Annual Conference of the English Language Teachers organisation NEAS on the profession’s journey to trust and professionalism. Trust in and regard for teachers as professionals is high … Continue reading “Plotting the Journey to Professionalism for English Teachers”
• ACoP appoints Chief Professionalist16 April 2021
  Australia and its institutions have experienced unprecedented challenges in the last 12 months.  A question that many have asked has been “who can we trust?“. The strength of Australia’s professional community stepping up to that … Continue reading “ACoP appoints Chief Professionalist”
• Micro-Credential Round Table16 April 2021
  The role of micro credentialing within the education ecosystem is increasing significant, yet there continues to be no commonly agreed standard within professional association accreditation practices. Many of our member organisations are grappling with the … Continue reading “Micro-Credential Round Table”
• Sydney Uni Researches Professional Ethics16 April 2021
  Professionals encounter ethical challenges in their work.  Sydney University PhD student Anne Quain is seeking to find out what support is accessed by professionals when navigating these situations, and what kind of support is offered … Continue reading “Sydney Uni Researches Professional Ethics”
• Diversity, Culture and Inclusion Advocate joins ACoP5 April 2021
• Professional Organisation Development Expert joins ACoP26 March 2021
  To further enhance our capability to support the professionalising of communities of practice, in particular the development of a framework to assist the development of Professional Associations, we have engaged a renowned expert in developing … Continue reading “Professional Organisation Development Expert joins ACoP”
• Financial Planning Professionals join ACoP9 March 2021
  Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA)
• Diversity, Culture and Inclusion? On IWD 2021, let’s start with including Culturally Diverse Women!8 March 2021
  There are so many facets to diversity. Diversity is a broad-based area that comprises of gender, LGBTIQA+, race, ethnicity, migration status, age and disability to name a few. In the context of International Womens Day … Continue reading “Diversity, Culture and Inclusion? On IWD 2021, let’s start with including Culturally Diverse Women!”
• Public Works Engineering Professionals join ACoP3 March 2021
  Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA)
• Institute of Internal Auditors joins ACoP3 March 2021
   Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)
• ACoP joins Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration17 February 2021
  The Australian federal Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs The Hon Alex Hawke MP has invited the Australian Council of Professions to serve on his Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration (MACSM). … Continue reading “ACoP joins Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration”
• ACoP delivers Invited Workshop on Ethics in Data Analytics1 February 2021
  In its Year of the Professions, Professionals and Professionalism, the Australian Council of Professions was invited to deliver a Professionalism and Ethics Workshop at the Health Informatics and Knowledge Management Conference (HIKM 2021) within the … Continue reading “ACoP delivers Invited Workshop on Ethics in Data Analytics”
• ACoP welcomes Return to Fact-Based Policy-Making20 January 2021
  The Australian Council of Professions welcomes the US administration’s return to making policies based on science and evidence-based facts. The commitments made by US President Joe Biden in his inauguration speech raise substantial hope that … Continue reading “ACoP welcomes Return to Fact-Based Policy-Making”
• 2021 – Professions, Professionals and Professionalism1 January 2021
  2020 saw unprecedented challenges for Australians and their institutions. Faced with an unknown virus pandemic, the public and governments trusted the Chief Medical/Health Officers as professionals providing science-based, ethical and responsible thought-leadership and advice to … Continue reading “2021 – Professions, Professionals and Professionalism”
• Global Leader in English Language Teaching QA joins ACoP15 December 2020
• Emerging Professions Round-Table11 December 2020
  Well-established professions occupy a position of privilege and inclusion in the provision of services and lawmaking machinery of societies. It is a desirable position to which communities of practice aspire, however realising this status presents … Continue reading “Emerging Professions Round-Table”